Category
page 1Relativistic paradoxes
twin paradox
thought experiment in special relativity
black hole information paradox
scientific question of whether information can disappear in a black hole
ladder paradox
thought experiment in special relativity
Ehrenfest paradox
paradox involving the impossibility of a rotating rigid disk in special relativity
Bell's spaceship paradox
thought experiment in special relativity: “a string hangs between two spaceships that start accelerating simultaneously equally in an inertial frame; will the string break?”
Rietdijk–Putnam argument
philosophical argument based on the theory of relativity
Paradox of radiation of charged particles in a gravitational field
apparent paradox in the context of general relativity