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    Length contraction near the speed of light

    Yes, but hasn't all of physics changed from the spaceship's perspective? How, for instance, do all the atoms of a contracted star fit within such a short distance without collapsing into a black hole? Does the astronaut have to teach her child a different kind of physics regarding the size...
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    Length contraction near the speed of light

    It is my understanding that an astronaut could get from Earth to the far edge of the Milky Way within the length of a human lifetime if she were traveling close enough to the speed of light. From earth’s perspective, time would pass very slowly for her as she moved across the galaxy. From the...
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    Hawking Radiation and Particle/Anti-Particle

    My (very basic) understanding of at least some form of Hawking Radiation is that, upon the formation of a particle/anti-particle pair near the event horizon, the black hole sucks in an anti-particle leaving the non-paired particle to go off into the universe as "radiation." But what about the...
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