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The discussion centers on the Twin Paradox and the behavior of a light clock as perceived by an observer on an outbound rocket. When the observer turns around, they experience a shift in simultaneity, leading to the perception that the stay-at-home twin's clock runs faster. However, this shift is a convention based on the chosen coordinates and does not indicate a physical change in the twin's clock. The observed effects are attributed to the relativistic Doppler effect rather than any superluminal behavior of light. Understanding this requires a grasp of the mathematical details of non-inertial frames and the relativistic Doppler effect.
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Twin Paradox - Light clock speed up?
Twin Paradox.

I am on the outgoing rocket and look back at my stay at home twins light clock (two mirrors with a ray of light bouncing in between)

I get to the nearest star and on the outbound journey my twins clock apears to run slow.

When I turn around my plane of simultaneity shift and I see my twins clock run fast as I “catch up” to in respect to his plane of reference for the return trip.

Do I see the light-ray of his clock bouncing faster than the speed of light between the mirrors or do I see his clock contract so that the light-ray can bounce quicker in the shorter space?


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tagehedin said:
TL;DR Summary: Twin Paradox - Light clock speed up?

Do I see the light-ray of his clock bouncing faster than the speed of light between the mirrors or do I see his clock contract so that the light-ray can bounce quicker in the shorter space?
It depends on the mathematical details of your non-inertial frame. Which you did not specify.

If you use something like radar coordinates (my preference) then the speed of light is always ##c## and there is no sudden jump in simultaneity
 
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Length contraction is a phenomenon between inertial frames, and you aren't using one. What you actually see is messy to compute; how you interpret it depends on your choice of non-inertial frame.
 
tagehedin said:
When I turn around my plane of simultaneity shift and I see my twins clock run fast as I “catch up” to in respect to his plane of reference for the return trip.
A simultaneity shift, as you call it, is just a change of simultaneity convention. Nothing physical happens to your twin's clock. It's not a physical change to anything.
 
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When I turn around my plane of simultaneity shift and I see my twins clock run fast
These two things have nothing to do with each other.

The "simultaneity shift" is purely a convention that depends on how you choose your coordinates. No physics depends on it.

What you actually see of the other twin's clock is an invariant, independent of how you choose your coordinates: it is the result of the relativistic Doppler effect. When you turn around, you change the relativistic Doppler effect that you observe in the light signals reaching you from the stay-at-home twin.

More here:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_doppler.html

tagehedin said:
Do I see the light-ray of his clock bouncing faster than the speed of light between the mirrors or do I see his clock contract so that the light-ray can bounce quicker in the shorter space?
No.

I suggest looking at the actual math of the relativistic Doppler effect.
 
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