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Dec21-11, 06:04 PM   #24
 
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Quote by Elroch View Post
True. There can be no such thing since there is no aether. But measuring position and speed relative to the midpoint of source and destination seems a natural choice for this problem.
In a generic twin problem, there is not necessarily a well defined destination, certainly not necessarily an obvious mid point (if you consider arbitrary trajectories). The thing that seems natural and completely general for me - best stand in for an odometer - is for each twin to measure the apparent travel distance of the other twin; as I have suggested in post #3 and again in #20.