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Let's visually discover the intuition behind Einstein's special relativity. Especially, the idea behind relativity of simultaneity. The train tunnel paradox, a.k.a the ladder paradox, a.k.a the pole barn paradox is an excellent example of that.
Chapters
00:00 - The Train Tunnel Paradox
02:00 - The Door Mechanism
03:24 - Visualising The Platform reference
04:47 - Visualising The Train Reference Frame
07:39 - Check out Brilliant for FREE
08:45 - Relativity Of Simultaneity
09:20 - Challenge question
10:35 - Bonus
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