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ah, ok, gotcha. thanks Janus

How about this: If you are moving 0.7c in a spaceship, and pass a spaceship headed in the opposite direction at 0.7c, does that mean you view his clock as moving backwards because he is moving at 1.4c with respect to you? And when its said that you can't go faster than the speed of light...

Thanks for the responses guys. So, my last question is, from the perspective of the man on the shuttle, is the clock on Earth running faster or slower than his own clock. From his perspecitve, the rest of the universe is in motion so i would expect him to "see" the Earth clock running slower...

The way the twin paradox is explained, the twin on the ship ages slower than the twin on Earth because he is moving at velocity with respect to the twin on earth. This makes sense from the twin on Earth's reference frame, but wouldn't the twin on the ship see it the opposite. From his...