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We agree ! Finally we agree on something. The twins age the same. All we have to agree on now is by how much they age? 6 years or 10 years? How is this mathematically or physically different from the return leg of the twin paradox? Or if I had a triplet on Alpha from the outgoing leg?

Finally we agree on something. The twins age the same. All we have to agree on now is by how much they age? 6 years or 10 years? How is this mathematically or physically different from the return leg of the twin paradox? Or if I had a triplet on Alpha from the outgoing leg?

Actually no. I expressed myself wrong though. My problem is not in the acceleration part, but in the decision of which twin ages most on a single leg. All inertial reference frames are "equal" - The Principle of Relativity. Take away the turn around and you are left with two inertial...

You are actually missing my point. I agree the turn around plays a role in the problem, but it is not acceleration that causes the problem. It is the change of reference frame and the accompanying clock resynchronisation in the "travelling" frame. It is a mathematical artifact. The problem...

How do you determine who turned around/accelerated? Take the example of two (make it four if you want) spaceships. Unless you assume a preferential inertial frame (postulated not to exist to deduce SR), you can pick which frame accelerates.

Sorry for opening up the discussion again, but I joined late. anantchowdhary's question is an extremely valid one, even though most commentators claimed to not understand the question. A photon has a wavefunction. The standard interpretation is the wavefunction gives the probability that...

Last little word before I allow you all to come down on me like a ton of bricks. The standard answer is that the traveling twin ages less, because he changes his reference frame. The contra to this is that he is changing only because you use the Earth/Alpha as "fixed". Why can I not use Alpha...

Sorry. Forgot one detail. Remember that after turning around, the traveling twin will still see flashes arriving which was originally sent from Earth before he arrived at Alpha. After returning to Earth, he will still see flashes arriving from Alpha for quite a while. This is where the...

Ha-ha. Lot's of people claim to understand the twin paradox. It is called a paradox because using the SR equations (incorrectly) tells you the one twin ages less than the other. It is then explained that it is not a paradox since the one twin changes inertial frames and therefore ages less...