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The "Paradoxes" of Special Relativity
a MICA Popular Talk by Dr. Rob Knop
Einstein's Relativity completely changed our view of time and how it relates to space. Some of the consequences of this are often termed "paradoxes", although they are not paradoxes, but rather things where the results are surprising given our intuitive understanding based on experience at speeds much less than the speed of light. The most famous of these is the "twin paradox", where one person travels at high speed away and back, and ages less than his twin who stayed behind, but there are others. In this talk, I'll describe some of these paradoxes, and show how in fact in Special Relativity they aren't paradoxes at all.
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