Submarine paradox softened
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| author | Nikolic, Hrvoje |
| author_facet | Nikolic, Hrvoje |
| contents | In Supplee's submarine paradox, a naive argument based on Lorentz contraction leads to a contradiction that a fast submarine should sink in the water's reference frame but float in the submarine's reference frame. Due to the submarine's rigidity constraints, it is not easy to resolve the paradox in a manifestly covariant form. To simplify the problem, we consider a version of the paradox in which one fluid moves through another fluid. An analysis of ideal relativistic fluids in a weak gravitational field shows that the moving fluid has a larger pressure and hence sinks, in agreement with known results for the rigid submarine. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2021 |
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| spellingShingle | Submarine paradox softened Nikolic, Hrvoje General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology In Supplee's submarine paradox, a naive argument based on Lorentz contraction leads to a contradiction that a fast submarine should sink in the water's reference frame but float in the submarine's reference frame. Due to the submarine's rigidity constraints, it is not easy to resolve the paradox in a manifestly covariant form. To simplify the problem, we consider a version of the paradox in which one fluid moves through another fluid. An analysis of ideal relativistic fluids in a weak gravitational field shows that the moving fluid has a larger pressure and hence sinks, in agreement with known results for the rigid submarine. |
| title | Submarine paradox softened |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11162 |