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How to make ‘moving rulers’ smaller? The strange physics behind special relativity

Albert Einstein is on the board. Special relativity is beyond weird. Among its many expressions are that moving clocks run slower and moving rulers become smaller. So how do we make sense of this? To understand the physics of relativity, we need to look back. time A little. in 1865 James Clerk Maxwell We discovered… Read More »