What is the Experimental Basis of Special Relativity?

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The discussion revolves around the visibility and importance of the Experimental Basis of Special Relativity (SR) FAQ within the Physics Forums. Participants are debating whether this resource should be a top-level sticky or simply included in the FAQ list, reflecting on its significance in the context of relativity discussions.

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  • Some participants believe the Experimental Basis of SR FAQ is crucial enough to warrant being a top-level sticky rather than just an FAQ entry.
  • There is a suggestion to remove other stickies, specifically those related to Maxwell’s Equations and mass-energy generation, to prioritize the twin paradox and the experimental basis sticky.
  • One participant has taken action to re-sticky the FAQ, indicating a consensus on its importance among some members.

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Participants generally agree on the importance of the Experimental Basis of SR FAQ, but there is disagreement regarding the management of other sticky threads and which should be prioritized.

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There are unresolved considerations regarding the number of stickies and their relevance, as well as the criteria for determining which resources should be prioritized in visibility.

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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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