# Bell's spaceship paradox

> thought experiment in special relativity: “a string hangs between two spaceships that start accelerating simultaneously equally in an inertial frame; will the string break?”

**Wikidata**: [Q816054](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816054)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_spaceship_paradox)  
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## References

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