Relativity and Cosmology

    

A Chart that Shows Why the Thread Doesn’t Break in Bell’s Spaceship Paradox

Authors: Michael Leon Fontenot

A chart is described that shows, according to inertial observers, the position versus time curves for an array of spaceships, all accelerating with the same constant acceleration (as confirmed by accelerometers). The initial slopes of the curves for the more distant spaceships are negative, which means that they are initially moving backwards (toward the trailing spaceship). And those slopes indicate that the speeds of those spaceships is greater than the speed of light. What is remarkable is that none of those results is problematical.

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