Relativistic Arquimedes law for fast moving bodies and the general-relativistic resolution of the "submarine paradox"

Details Relativistic Arquimedes law for fast moving bodies and the general-relativistic resolution of the "submarine paradox" Relativistic Arquimedes law for fast moving bodies and the general-relativistic resolution of the "submarine paradox"

2003-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305106v1

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 027701

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

4 pages (REVTEX) (compact manuscript version)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.027701

We investigate and solve in the context of General Relativity the apparent paradox which appears when bodies floating in a background fluid are set in relativistic motion. Suppose some macroscopic body, say, a submarine designed to lie just in equilibrium when it rests (totally) immersed in a certain background fluid. The puzzle arises when different observers are asked to describe what is expected to happen when the submarine is given some high velocity parallel to the direction of the fluid surface. On the one hand, according to observers at rest with the fluid, the submarine would contract and, thus, sink as a consequence of the density increase. On the other hand, mariners at rest with the submarine using an analogous reasoning for the fluid elements would reach the opposite conclusion. The general relativistic extension of the Arquimedes law for moving bodies shows that the submarine sinks.

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