You are a passenger on a spaceship. As the speed of the spaceship increases, you would observe
A)the length of your spaceship getting shorter.
B)the length of your spaceship getting longer.
C)the length of your spaceship varying erratically.
D)nothing unusual about the length of your spaceship.
E)cannot be determined from the given information

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According to the theory of relativity, length contraction occurs in the direction of motion for an outside observer, but passengers on the spaceship would not notice any change in the length of their own spaceship.

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