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The Rocket & String Paradox

This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does the thread break? And if so, why?

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  • Originally Aired August 18, 2021
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Production Code kU8TEcie4hY
  • Network YouTube
  • Created August 19, 2021 by
    shriek
  • Modified August 19, 2021 by
    shriek