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.

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According to the theory of relativity, length contraction occurs in the direction of motion relative to an outside observer, not to someone inside the spaceship. As a passenger, you would not notice any change in the length of your spaceship.

You Are a Passenger on a Spaceship