B What is the Experimental Basis of Special Relativity?

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The discussion centers on the importance of reinstating the "Experimental Basis of Special Relativity" FAQ as a top-level sticky in the forum due to its frequent reference by users. Participants express concern that its removal diminishes access to a crucial resource. Suggestions include potentially removing less critical stickies to maintain a manageable number. The consensus is that the experimental basis and the twin paradox are of higher priority compared to other topics currently stickied. The thread concludes with the reinstatement of the FAQ as a sticky for better 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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