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4 unusual facts about Ehrenfest paradox


Ehrenfest paradox

1937: Jan Weyssenhoff (now perhaps best known for his work on Cartan connections with zero curvature and nonzero torsion) notices that the Langevin observers are not hypersurface orthogonal.

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1910: Gustav Herglotz and Fritz Noether independently elaborated on Born's model and showed (Herglotz-Noether theorem) that Born rigidity only allows of three degrees of freedom for bodies in motion.

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Citations to the papers mentioned below (and many which are not) can be found in a paper by Øyvind Grøn which is available on-line.

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1975: Øyvind Grøn writes a classic review paper about solutions of the "paradox"



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