Thread: How do theories like relativity hold up with paradoxes?
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Old 15-June-2004, 03:03 AM
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Originally Posted by SeanF
dvb, at least in regards to Relativity, there are no real paradoxes. There are some things that appear to be paradoxes at first glance, but once you understand the entire theory, you can see that they are not.
Bears repeating: there are no actual paradoxes, just apparent paradoxes. They are apparent paradoxes because if you approach (for example) an SR problem with Newtonian logic, you will see a paradox. The purpose of using the paradox as an example is to show how the theory resolves the apparent paradox..