B What is the Experimental Basis of Special Relativity?

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I've added it to the FAQ.
 
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I think this one is sufficiently important to be a top-level sticky, not just another FAQ entry.
 
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I think this one is sufficiently important to be a top-level sticky, not just another FAQ entry.
Me too. I didn't know that it had been unstuck, but I refer to it more than any single other resource we have.

I think that if we are worried about too many stickies then we can remove both the Maxwell’s Equations in a Static, Spherically Symmetric Spacetime and the An Introduction to the Generation of Mass from Energy from the stickies and move those to the FAQ instead. I think that the twin paradox sticky and the experimental basis sticky are higher priority than those two.
 
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I just stickied the thing again.
 
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