What is the Experimental Basis of Special Relativity?

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The forum discussion centers on the importance of the "Experimental Basis of Special Relativity" FAQ, which participants believe should be reinstated as a top-level sticky due to its significance. Users express their reliance on this resource more than any other, indicating its critical role in understanding special relativity. There is a suggestion to remove less essential stickies, such as those on Maxwell’s Equations and mass-energy generation, to prioritize the twin paradox and experimental basis stickies. The consensus is clear: the experimental basis FAQ is essential for ongoing discussions in the field of 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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