Relativity and Cosmology

    

A Resolution of Bell’s Spaceship Paradox

Authors: Michael Leon Fontenot

The outcome of Bell’s Spaceship Paradox has historically been very controversial. Some physicists said the thread breaks, and some physicists said it doesn’t. More recently, most physicists say the thread breaks. But the correct answer is that the string does NOT break. That SAME answer is obtained by both of the two inertial observers who are at rest with the two spaceships immediately before acceleration begins, and also by both of the two observers who are forever stationary with respect to the two rockets themselves.

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