Relative space: space measurements on a rotating platform

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/24/6/002MaRDI QIDQ4810114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Publication date 31 August 2004

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0309020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

Abstract: We introduce here the concept of relative space, an extended 3-space which is recognized as the only space having an operational meaning in the study of the space geometry of a rotating disk. Accordingly, we illustrate how space measurements are performed in the relative space, and we show that an old-aged puzzling problem, that is the Ehrenfest's paradox, is explained in this purely relativistic context. Furthermore, we illustrate the kinematical origin of the tangential dilation which is responsible for the solution of the Ehrenfest's paradox.

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