{"id":71428,"date":"2021-03-06T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71428"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:51:00","slug":"can-we-break-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71428","title":{"rendered":"Can We Break the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re going to delve into a couple of the most famous paradoxes of special relativity: the Twin Paradox, The Ladder Paradox (aka the Barn-Pole Paradox), and a paradox suggested by our very own viewers, which asks whether a spaceship could wrap around the universe &amp; destroy itself. We\u2019ll explore these paradoxes and see why, against our intuition, the universe really does work in this seemingly nonsensical way. But the point of this episode is to go much further &#8211; we\u2019re going to try to break the universe by pushing these paradoxes beyond the limit. Special Thanks to our Patreon Supporters Hank &amp; Mark for suggesting the questions that inspired this episode!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MfJ59lkABY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VrZFV6MVRRWGdWeXRibjBTQUJwbTlKeVdXd3xBQ3Jtc0trQUVBenN2aXJJQ1NuYVc4TVptNjZQVWhEdmdXNGlwLXJfT2Q3SlZkSFF6ZWx5TDN4OFlhS2xzTWdqSzZIaE9IX1FKeVpfQzV6dmxqMS0yUmx1Um43QkkzRy11MlE3SDZjMVRMeEJxWnUtUW1na3hoVQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpbsspacetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re going to delve into a couple of the most famous paradoxes of special relativity: the Twin Paradox, The Ladder Paradox (aka the Barn-Pole Paradox), and a paradox suggested by our very own viewers, which asks whether a spaceship could wrap around the universe &amp; destroy itself. We\u2019ll explore these paradoxes and see why, against our intuition, the universe really does work in this seemingly nonsensical way. But the point of this episode is to go much further &#8211; we\u2019re going to try to break the universe by pushing these paradoxes beyond the limit. Special Thanks to our Patreon Supporters Hank &amp; Mark for suggesting the questions that inspired this episode! Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,853],"class_list":["post-71428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71429,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71428\/revisions\/71429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}