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|    Nicolaas Vroom to Tom Roberts    |
|    Re: The tower of the twins    |
|    29 Jun 18 07:27:58    |
      From: nicolaas.vroom@pandora.be              On Tuesday, 26 June 2018 12:13:16 UTC+2, Tom Roberts wrote:       >       > As I said to Mr. Vroom: a clock's tick rate can only be measured       > by a co-located and co-moving observer; anything else involves       > signals, not just the clock.              Consider a co-located and co-moving observer A which clock moves       a long a certain path from P1 to P2.       Consider a second co-located and co-moving observer B which clock       moves a long a certain but different path from P1 to P2.       When they compare clocks at P2 A's clock has counted 40 ticks       and B's clock has counted 30 ticks.       What is wrong by claiming that A's clock (for some reason)       has ticked faster during the time that both A and B travelled       from P1 to P2?              Nicolaas Vroom              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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