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The pole in the barn paradox and

spacetime diagram
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1. 
In the example done in the video, even though Alice's pole is 10 meters long,
and Bob's barn is 8 meters long, Bob thinks that Alice's pole will t completely
inside as she goes through the barn. Why does he think this?

Bob observes his barn expand in length to 10 meters.

He's crazy.

Bob observes a length contraction e
ect for Alice's pole.

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2. 
In the example done in the video, even though Alice's pole is 10 meters long,
and Bob's barn is 8 meters long, Bob thinks that Alice's pole will t completely
inside as she goes through the barn. Why does Alice think Bob is wrong?

Bob's crazy.

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Alice observes her pole to increase in length as she travels toward the
barn.

Alice observes a length contraction e
ect for the barn, making it even
shorter than its rest length of 8 meters.

Correct 

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3. 
In the example done in the video, how can Bob observe/photograph the front of
the pole to be located at the rear door of the barn at 44.4 nanoseconds and the
rear of the pole to be located at the front door of the barn at 44.4 nanoseconds
(so the entire pole is in the barn), while Alice agrees with Bob's clock readings
but never herself observes the pole to be entirely within the barn?

Because Alice observes Bob's clocks to be unsynchronized, with the

rear door photo occurring rst and the front door later.

Correct 

Because when Bob synchronized his clocks he forgot to take into

account that light travels at a nite speed.

Because Bob's crazy.

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