I'm still not getting it so let me break this down again but his time I will introduce some mathematics into this (I used online calculators here so correct me if any of them are wrong). I have tried to make this as short as possible but it may drag on.
We have our 2 planets A & B which are in...
Yes I didn’t like the idea of breaking the problem down into a series of inertial frames because that seems to defeat the purpose of the query which was to understand the difference between accelerating frames and inertial ones but it was alluded to before so I went along with it.
Yes because...
Problematic mathematically or conceptually? Or both? I mean if you break X’s trip into a series of moments as you say so that at any given instant he is on an inertial frame then during the entire trip he is continually changing inertial frames. The first half he is changing from one inertial...
Thanks for the shared paper. That gives a pretty good explanation of SR and the twin paradox. I wish somebody had sent that to me before as it would have saved me a lot of trouble. I have a couple of queries I want to follow up on though since I've thought about this a bit more.
My examples...
Great. I think I have a pretty good understanding of it now. Apologies for not including the math. I knew all along my numbers weren't strictly correct but I was just simplifying the numbers in order to conceptualise the whole thing. I have been reading and watching videos on the twin paradox...
Ok Thanks for the replies. I have had a think about my scenarios and read some more and I realize there may have been some incorrect assumptions. Let me point them out and see if someone can confirm them for me. Note: I am removing spaceship X in the below examples.
First off the distance...
Hello I have been trying to understand the twin paradox (without math) but I’m still trying to grasp the idea. I have seen and read enough tutorials to know that acceleration is not needed for the twin paradox to be solved. For anyone who doesn’t know the twin paradox without acceleration...