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Thanks for the reply. I think boths answers were sort of beside the point, but i think that was down to my poorly spoken question. What I am wondering is, when theorists apply for post doc positions after completing their Phd, do some take up experiemental research? For instance, a Theoretical...

Maybe not, no, just from the fact that it is harder to get onto a Theoretical Physics Phd program than an experimental program. Is it unheard of though?

Call me crazy, but am I right in thinking that people with a Phd in Theoretical Physics could take up a position in a university as an experimentalist? Is it a strange thing for a theorist to do? Or is it not that black and white? Is it more of a blur? Would theorists be viewed just as capable...

LMAO. Thanks that has cleared up a lot i think. But what is it that distinguishes the twin paradox example from the HK experiment? The fact that twin is taking a different route and the commercial planes went around the world in a circle?

In a few places I have read things along the line of this: I am getting confused, because some people say this experiment has resolved the paradox and some people think its still a paradox. How exactly has the twin paradox "been verified experimentally" from the HK experiment?

Can anyone tell me what exactly do the variables "Time Dilation" and "Velocity of a fraction of the speed of light" represent (in this graph) from the lorentz contraction? http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/figures/gr_timedial.gif Does the x-axis represent "v/c" or is it "v^2/c^2"? What does...