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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.

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.

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.

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



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