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How do ‘moving rulers shrink’? The strange physics behind special relativity

Submit on Monday, May 20th, 2024 22:12

Special relativity is beyond weird. Among its many statements are that moving clocks run slow and that moving rulers shrink. But how are we supposed to make sense of this?

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