How does a mirror travelling at light speed behave? We may now know
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Over a century in the past, Albert Einstein discovered a paradox throughout a thought experiment involving mirrors shifting at the speed of light. Now, a brand new set of calculations may have unravelled it.
“If you search the internet for ‘what would you see in a mirror moving at the speed of light?’ you will find intense discussions on physics-related forums. Curiously enough, none of the proposed answers are correct,” says Sergei Bulanov at the ELI Beamlines Facility within the…