The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/thescienceasylum07221 Bell's spaceship paradox from special relativity has been tormenting physicists for decades. I try to settle the debate once and for all with the use of spacetime diagrams. 00:00 Cold Open 00:57 Physical Paradoxes 01:42 History of Spaceship Paradox 02:41 Spaceship Paradox Explained 04:59 Acceleration in Special Relativity 06:55 The Solution 08:36 The Limits 09:48 Sponsor Message 10:54 Outro 11:13 Featured Comment Nick Lucid - Host/Writer/Editor/Animator ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Quantum Entanglement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiyKxhETXd8 Light is Infinite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPi1lyAx4ws Length Contraction Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxW6_E3uLuo Quasi-Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTC6OXSafRM ________________________________ RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS Kyle Hill on Spaceship Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iBtHroB978 Epic Math Time on Spaceship Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGd1MqfZm1o MinutePhysics on Spaceship Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8TEcie4hY ________________________________ SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/ScienceAsylum YouTube Membership: null Advanced Theoretical Physics (Paperback): http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-lucid/advanced-theoretical-physics-a-historical-perspective/paperback/product-24250687.html Advanced Theoretical Physics (eBook): https://gumroad.com/l/ubSc Merchandise: http://shop.spreadshirt.com/scienceasylum/ ________________________________ HUGE THANK YOU TO THESE SUPPORTERS Asylum Orderlies: Dhruv Singhal, Fabio Manzini, Medec Hurtz Einsteinium Crazies: Bosphorus, Eoin O'Sullivan, Ilya Yashin, Jonathan Lima, Joseph Salomone, OnlineBookClub, Sean K, Wacky Plutonium Crazies: Al Davis, Compuart, Ellis Hall, Kevin MacLean, Rick Myers, Vid Icarus Platinum Crazies: Benjamin Dixon, Benjamin Reynolds, Clayton Bruckert, David Johnston, James Coley, Jon Adams, Jonas Wepeel, Jonathan Reel, Marino Hernandez, Mikayla Eckel Cifrese, Mr. Orn Jonasar, Olga Cooperman, Stephen Blinn, Stephen Gailey ________________________________ OTHER SOURCES https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1996214 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1969514 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1986781 https://www.danielhoek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Bell-How-to-teach-Special-Relativity.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05276 ________________________________ LINKS TO COMMENTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTC6OXSafRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTC6OXSafRM ________________________________ IMAGE CREDITS Early People: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simeon_Poisson.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oheaviside.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Clerk_Maxwell.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Einstein_patentoffice_full.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:08608_einstein_1916.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hilbert.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noether.jpg John Stewart Bell: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1766159