Relativity and Cosmology

    

A Simple Proof that the Thread Doesn’t Break in Bell’s Spaceship Paradox

Authors: Michael Leon Fontenot

This paper shows that the inertial observers, who are stationary with respect to the accelerating observers immediately before the acceleration begins, conclude that the accelerating observers get closer together as the acceleration proceeds, and that the separation approaches zero as time goes to infinity. Therefore they conclude that the thread doesn’t break. The accelerating observers conclude that their separation never changes, and so they also conclude that the thread doesn’t break. Although the reasons for their conclusions are different, they must agree about the survival of the thread.

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