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Originally Posted by sjastro
Neither scenario would occur. Apart from the infinite relativistic mass, ships A and B would be dimensionless in the direction of motion let alone have a 500m gap between them.
Length contraction might be a difficult concept to grasp but there is a practical application in the construction of particle accelerators. For particles with small half lives accelerated at 0.99c, the distance between the particle beam source and the target is calculated taking into account the relativistic effects.
Regards
Steven
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I'm utterly confused at warp factor five Mr Spock.
