Question

Is Earth flat when you are moving at light speed? ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Is Earth flat when you are moving at light speed? Therefore, saying Earth is flat is not 100% wrong but a matter of perspective?

Length Contraction

In the theory of special relativity space and time are relative coordinates. This means that observers in different reference frames will measure different values for time and position for the same event since they are in motion relative to one another. This leads to several interesting consequences such as length contraction.

Length contraction is the phenomenon where moving objects are measured as being shorter (in the direction of motion) than when they are measured while stationary. More specifically they are measured as being shorter when they are moving at some speed v relative to the observer who is measuring the objects length.

The amount of length contraction of the object is determined by the relative speed between the object and observer who is measuring it as:

L

′

=

L

0

√

1

−

v

2

c

2

Here L' is the length of the object as measured by an observer in relative motion with speed v with the object,

L

0

is the length of the object as measured by an observer who is moving with the object (stationary relative to it), and c is the speed of light in vacuum. Pls mark me as brainliest