The Ladder Paradox is a famous thought experiment that shows you why you can fit objects into spaces that are too small for them. And also why you can’t, depending on your perspective. Relativity does ...
Rahul Mandal, the researcher who won TV’s Great British Bake Off last year, is the star of the August 2019 issue of Physics World magazine with a tasty look at the science of baking. Based at the ...
The Terrell-Penrose effect, predicted in 1959, suggests that objects moving at speeds close to that of light appear rotated. This optical illusion results from the combination of relativistic length ...