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Well time would appear to be moving slow but the disk would still appear to be moving fast correct? If it's traveling near the speed of light, it would look like it's traveling near the speed of light. And length contraction is seen only from outside observers correct? It's been a few years since I studied relativity.
Comment by thunts7 at 20/07/2022 at 20:41 UTC
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Ok so I guess I didn't say it correctly like yes it would be moving fast but if there was say a clock on it the clock would be moving slow. But the outside observer sees that time change the observer on the disk would also be slowed down so their perception of the clock would be of a normal clock they would see everything outside moving faster in terms of events that would happen. The person inside sees the distance contraction because to be able to go the full distance at the speed of light then the distance needs to decrease so that the speed of light is constant for both inside and outside observers