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by dotnet00 1087 days ago
The idea is similar to how we detect gravitational waves in interferometers, when space gets compressed, the distance the photon has to travel shrinks slightly.

To take your ruler example, if you compress it by 1mm, you can traverse its entire length traveling 1mm less than before, thus, from the reference frame of someone who can't see that you've compressed the ruler, you've traveled slightly faster.