physical paradox
apparent contradiction in physical descriptions of the universe
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?”
mechanical paradox
apparatus for studying physical paradoxes
ultraviolet catastrophe
classical physics prediction that black body radiation grows unbounded with frequency
Lighthouse paradox
thought experiment about the speed of light
Faraday paradox
resolved paradox in electrochemistry