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|    Nicolaas Vroom to Tom Roberts    |
|    Re: The Twin Paradox: the role of accele    |
|    04 Jul 19 20:41:30    |
      From: nicolaas.vroom@pandora.be              On Thursday, 4 July 2019 09:19:55 UTC+2, Tom Roberts wrote:              > Ultimately, the twin paradox displays the basic geometrical fact that       > different paths between a given pair of points can have different path       > lengths.       >       > Tom Roberts              This is a 'difficult' explanation.       The easiest explanation is (?) that this is a physical issue which       depends on the inner workings of the clock.       More or less the same why moving pendulum clocks on a moving ship don't       work properly (moving from A to B and back).       Moving clocks working on light signals have the same problem. When such       a clock moves with the speed of light, the clock does not tick at all.              Nicolaas Vroom.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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