If you do an experiment on earth, and then do an identical experiment in a jet plane moving uniformly at a high speed, you get identical results from both experiments. This is an example of

a. time dilation
b. length contraction
c. the equivalence of mass and energy
d. the principle of relativity
e. none of the above


D

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