Say I observe a spaceship fly between points A and B at close to the speed of light. The spaceship's clock will be running slower than mine, however I still observe the distance it travels as the proper length between A and B. Now say I'm in the spaceship. Now I will see the distance between A...
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I'll try to cut right to the chase. I'm studying both length contraction and time dilation in my physics class and it seems these two occurrences are mutually exclusive. That is, in any given situation, only time will be dilated or length will be contracted. This doesn't...