Summary

DescriptionSpace contraction rocket frame.svg	English: Space contraction derivation for Wikiversity:Special relativity and steps towards general relativity, showing the rocket's frame. A single time slice makes the rocket seem to be 1D, but really, the world sheet of the rocket shows that the rocket is a 2D spacetime object.
Date	8 July 2011
Source	Own work
Author	Boud
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