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Thanks Hurkyl. How would I calculate what happens during the acceleration - can this be done in SR with the acceleration being a step change in velocity?

Thanks yogi, I have trawled the web but all I can find are justifications of why there is no paradox. This I accept anyway. What I want to do is work things through myself, creating an Excel spreadsheet with time & location of salient events in all reference frames, using Lorentz. I am halfway...

Guys, I'm trying (just for fun) to map out quantitatively from each traveller's perspective what happens in the following situation. Imagine the classic twins paradox, with triplets instead of twins, but not for the purposes of avoiding the turn-around. In my question, Triplet A stays on Earth...

Hello ... I'm having the same thoughts Gerinsky, you are asking exactly the question I've been trawling the web for an answer to, I think! I've been having a discussion with a friend at work about this, which started about the implications of SR for free will. Having progressed the debate a...