Speeding up causes the space-time metric to shrink. You have to arrive at the shrinking of
space-time at high speed in SR through the
acceleration that gets you there.
Re: speed, size, time ... | When an object increases in speed, during acceleration, does the ... | object 'shrink' in size, ... | accelerating and escaping nucleus, and it would therefore not be able ... Earth sees the space ship traveling very *slowly* ... (sci.physics.relativity)
speed, size, time ... When an object increases in speed, during acceleration, does the ... Do they shrink because the electrons find a longer path, ... accelerating and escaping nucleus, and it would therefore not be able ... My end vision here is that there is this spaceship traveling across ... (sci.physics.relativity)
Re: speed, size, time ... > When an object increases in speed, during acceleration, does the ... > object 'shrink' in size, relative to a motionless observer.... and thus squashed along the axis of motion.... (sci.physics.relativity)
Re: speed, size, time ... > When an object increases in speed, during acceleration, does the ... An object is measured to shrink in the direction of ... > accelerating and escaping nucleus, and it would therefore not be able ...measurement in the spacetime in which we live. ... (sci.physics.relativity)
Re: SR on accelerating frame of reference ... > shrink....Speeding up relative to who? ... This slightly unusual method of rewriting the Lorentz might ... albeit with a strange coordinate... (sci.physics.relativity)
