Sixty Symbols | Relativity Paradox - Sixty Symbols @sixtysymbols | Uploaded 11 years ago | Updated 1 day ago
Trains, tunnels, muons and giant guillotines - strange things happen when you travel close to the speed of light. Discussing relativity, time dilation and Lorentz contraction.

Watch our first Gamma video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJNsRZ4WxI

This video features Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham - Mike tweets at https://twitter.com/ProfMike_M

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