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Feather and Glass momentum Paradox of Special Relativity

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posted on 2021-08-08, 18:05 authored by Viktor SchatzViktor Schatz
A very light mass entity like a feather, a grain of sand or a leaf being in one inertial frame and a fragile entity like a vine glass, a lightbulb or a vase being in another inertial frame will relativistically impact together. The Lorentz factor is enormous, let say 1 billion as it is not limited. At the point of observation of the resting feather the glass is enormously heavy and has a momentum of gigantic value while the feather itself does have its normal rest mass and none momentum in the own inertial frame. Therefore the impact result will be evidently that glass stays whole and the feather will get an enormous momentum and after impact will move in same direction as the fragile glass entity would keep its moving nearly unchanged. But if we set us as observer into the inertial frame of the fragile glass piece, then the feather will have an enormous momentum and energy now and then its clear that the fragile glass piece in own inertial frame having rest mass and no momentum will be broken. Even if we place a lot of glass pieces into the way of the fast moved feather they all would be destroyed too. And that are two different realities of contradicting events, which we've got just by using Special Relativity's Relativity Principle which means that all inertial frames are “equally righted” and we can replace observation points as we did it.

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