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Ehrenfest paradox

paradox involving the impossibility of a rotating rigid disk in special relativity
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Ehrenfest paradox

Summary

Ehrenfest paradox is a paradox[1]. It draws 128 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #55 of 104).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ehrenfest paradox's image is recorded as Ehrenfest-paradox-disk.svg[3].
  • Ehrenfest paradox's instance of is recorded as paradox[4].
  • Paul Ehrenfest is named after Ehrenfest paradox[5].
  • Ehrenfest paradox's Commons category is recorded as Ehrenfest paradox[6].
  • Ehrenfest paradox's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/084qn3[7].
  • Ehrenfest paradox's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 57164383[8].
  • Ehrenfest paradox's Krugosvet article is recorded as nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/PARADOKSI_SPETSIALNO_TEORII_OTNOSITELNOSTI.html[9].

Why It Matters

Ehrenfest paradox draws 128 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #55 of 104).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

Paul Ehrenfest

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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