Comments on: Lorentz Contraction And The Ladder Paradox. https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 By: Anonymous https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/#comment-15858 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:27:06 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1537#comment-15858 Thats wy you will remain a smurf and never become a giant

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/#comment-595 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:07:25 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1537#comment-595 I demand you make it so this happens. Demand it. Science must answer to me!

]]> By: Smurf https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/#comment-594 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:32:25 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1537#comment-594 Until I see you running a ladder through a garage at light speed I refuse to believe any of this is true.

]]> By: hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/#comment-593 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:09:46 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1537#comment-593 No. Thought experiments are thought experiments for two reasons: 1) To make the concepts they describe easy to understand, 2) Because no practical method of carrying out the thought experiment in the real world exists. We can indirectly observe the results of supernova, the behaviour of light, subatomic particle reactions etc. and see the hand of special relativity there, but it’s mostly not something you can look at in the way described above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity has a good summary of technical verifications of special relativity in the laboratory, but we don’t run ladders through garages at light speed. Sorry.

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/lorentz-contraction-and-the-ladder-paradox/#comment-592 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:21:33 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1537#comment-592 I like the thought experiments and I get what is going on. I do thoroughly understand it conceptually and theoretically…

But is there a good example that may be readily available to a casual individual to observe? As in, can the train thing be done in real life and is it something that would be obvious (or obvious when pointed out or whatever) to us?

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