Uncle Al wrote:
Perspicacious wrote:

There are subtleties in the twin paradox that can't be
avoided unless you're competent in high school algebra
and can follow carefully stated mathematical reasoning,
line by line. I only know of one paper that properly
resolves the "twin paradox." It is carefully detailed
and is written by a mathematician. Let me know if you
have any questions.

http://www.everythingimportant.org/r...ty/special.pdf

Emprical idiot.

http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/SRtwinParadox.html
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/twins.html

The twin that traverses the most space accumulates the least time.


The conclusions in the above two links are contradictory and mutually
ezxclusive. The first link asserts that there is no time difference in
the age of the tweens. the second link asserts that the time difference
that exists is non paradoxical but a consequence of Minkowski spacetime
properties.

Mike




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