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1. ## The Actual Solution To The Ehrenfest Paradox (Relativistic Spinning Disk)

I just recently stumbled upon a Quora question regarding Ehrenfest Paradox, and noticed that people were giving completely wrong answers to it. Basically the paradox is this; In terms of Special Relativity, how does spinning disk work in special relativity, if the circumference of the rotating disk undergoes length-contraction (since it's parallel to motion) while its radius does not (since it's perpendicular to motion), and this would imply that $\frac{circumference}{diameter} \neq \pi$. I checked bunch of similar questions of the same topic, and can't find a single person g
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