Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:52:48 -0500 Message-ID: <57894D26.7D8E@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:52:54 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Absurdity Called Einstein's Twin Paradox References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-w4T3Lhhel/KD081ozuFOFhH6EXNO5dhe8hrtnC/52xM3C5rVtZBJE6Tt14FlyGV5kiCmMnaagIgTLfe!lOQbNgl8db+9Z+vFo3hAuKSUqGSse17NqbuCbI5YHyL6XC4Hs/HxQP6/p0VmgLDMtLDf2nQLcAj1!DVTe0mnGS5A= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2340 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:387843 Pentcho Valev wrote: > > Special relativity predicts that either twin ages more slowly than the other, as judged from the other twin's system: > > http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf > David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow, but enough strangeness occurs during the turning-around period to make A end up older." > > Special relativity's prediction that either twin ages more slowly than the other (as judged from the other twin's system) leads to absurdity unless "enough strangeness occurs during the turning-around period to make A end up older". However, during the turning-around period, the traveling twin is very far away from his stationary brother so the idea that "enough strangeness" is somehow produced during the turning-around period and this "enough strangeness" miraculously affects the distant statio > > Pentcho Valev There is no reason why Twin B flies quickly to a distant star and Twin A stays on earth... Twin B can simply be atop a mountain.. and get the same results.