The Rocket & String Paradox

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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?

REFERENCES
Interactive Spacetime Globe by Alexander Wu:
alexonscience.com/projects/spa...


Read an overview on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s...

John Baez on Bell's Spaceship Paradox, Rindler Acceleration, etc
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics...


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