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|    Luigi Fortunati to All    |
|    The twins and Einstein's train    |
|    03 Sep 19 11:17:45    |
      From: fortunati.luigi@gmail.com              The twins A and C are in station A, twin B is in station B.       A-----------------------------B              The traveling twin C departs from A and travels towards B at a       relativistic speed equal to gamma=2.              During the journey, in front of the twin C passes the clock of an       intermediate station.              The train's camera films that clock for a nanosecond (train time).              Is it correct to say that on the video of that nanosecond, the station       clock advances by HALF nanosecond?                     [[Mod. note -- Probably not: you need to take into account the varying       light-travel-time from the clock to the train's camera. It's precisely       to avoid this issue that special relativity introduces the concept of       a "reference frame" with a (gedanken) infinite set of observers, so       all observations can be made by colocated observers who don't suffer       from light-travel-time effects.       -- jt]]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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