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Re: [Phys-l] how to explain relativity



At 10:20 AM -0400 6/17/10, Jeffrey Schnick wrote:
Note that, in order to make sense of the statement that the two
spaceships undergo identical accelerations in that system (S/O/earth), I
need to consider each spaceship to be of negligible length or to be
accordian-like in that different parts of an extended spaceship would
have different *proper* accelerations with the forward parts having
higher proper accelerations than the after parts.


How about having a bunch of identical rocket motors distributed along the rope?