Length contraction: You are a passenger on a spaceship. As the speed of the spaceship increases, you would observe that
A) the length of your spaceship is getting shorter.
B) the length of your spaceship is getting longer.
C) the length of your spaceship is not changing.

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Length contraction is observed from a stationary frame of reference, not from within the moving object itself. From the perspective of a passenger on the spaceship, the spaceship's length would appear unchanged.

Length Contraction: You Are a Passenger on a Spaceship