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  2. Bell's spaceship paradox - Wikipedia

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    This means, by definition, that with respect to S the distance between the two rockets does not change even when they speed up to relativistic velocities." [1] Then this setup is repeated again, but this time the back of the first rocket is connected with the front of the second rocket by a silk thread. They concluded:

  3. Twin paradox - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving twins, one of whom takes a space voyage at relativistic speeds and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more.

  4. Multiple time dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Multiple independent timeframes, in which time passes at different rates, have long been a feature of stories. [15] Fantasy writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis have made use of these and other multiple time dimensions, such as those proposed by Dunne, in some of their most well-known stories. [15]

  5. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    According to the special theory of relativity introduced by Albert Einstein, it is impossible to say in an absolute sense that two distinct events occur at the same time if those events are separated in space. If one reference frame assigns precisely the same time to two events that are at different points in space, a reference frame that is ...

  6. Space travel under constant acceleration - Wikipedia

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    From the planetary frame of reference, the ship's speed will appear to be limited by the speed of light — it can approach the speed of light, but never reach it. If a ship is using 1 g constant acceleration, it will appear to get near the speed of light in about a year, and have traveled about half a light year in distance. For the middle of ...

  7. Gravitational singularity - Wikipedia

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    Motivated by such philosophy of loop quantum gravity, recently it has been shown [12] that such conceptions can be realized through some elementary constructions based on the refinement of the first axiom of geometry, namely, the concept of a point [13] by considering Klein's prescription of accounting for the extension of a small spot that ...

  8. Anti-de Sitter space - Wikipedia

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    Three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space is like a stack of hyperbolic disks, each one representing the state of the universe at a given time. [a]In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS n) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature.

  9. Intergalactic travel - Wikipedia

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    There is no known way to create the space-distorting wave this concept needs to work, but the metrics of the equations comply with relativity and the limit of light speed. [ 9 ] A wormhole is a hypothetical tunnel through space-time that would allow instantaneous intergalactic travel to the most distant galaxies even billions of light years away.