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Hi everyone, I'm a new member and a proud nerd besides. And in the best, time-honoured traditions of a new nerd greeting a large nerd tribe, I would like to describe one of my nerdiest and most treasured possessions: I still have the solar-powered TI scientific calculator which I bought in my...

New user, old nerd and I'm jumping in right here. My own personal approach to this problem of getting some intuition for ideas of time dilation and length contraction went as follows. 1) Accept that we have no native intuition for such things nor any internal reference points for understanding...