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Does general relativity make this any easier? I vaguely remember a podcast explaining a thought experiment where a car that is longer than a barn can shrink to fit in the bar. This is because the barn doors disagree on whether they are open/closed simultaneously based on the point of reference. So there must be a point of reference that shrinks the camel.
I'm probably not the guy to ask this question to, but I would speculate based on our currently available science, sufficiently warped spacetime could make this possible, however incredibly difficult to achieve without sufficient technology and energy.
It would be easier to use physical forces or chemical forces to turn the camel into material with low enough viscosity to pass through the needle. I don't believe it was stated anywhere that the camel had to be assembled upon delivery.
I don't have good confidence that the camel would comfortably survive, or even be correctly assembled, if it were stuffed through the same aperture using warped spacetime instead. Someone smarter than me would have to tackle that one, but spaghettification comes to mind.
It gets shorter and more massive. From a certain viewpoint.