Twins Paradox
The Twins Paradox is a famous thought experiment showing a confusing potential outcome of time dilation predicted by Special Relativity.
Is there an answer by academics in the threads below (one referencing the other) providing a satisfactory explanation of the Twins Paradox? You be the judge. To me, these thoughtful answers bring up more new questions than answers; a tell-tail sign something might not be quite right.
- https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/620066/twin-paradox-in-sr
- https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2554/how-is-the-classical-twin-paradox-resolved
In fact, predicted responses to this Relativity Challenge are well covered. On a humorous side, realistic, if not revealing, responses to relativity skepticism are addressed in this satire.
Before Einstein's theories of relativity, a universal frame of reference or, commonly known as aether, was generally accepted. The Lorentz Ether Theory (LET) continues to be a common alternate theory to relativity. Incidentally, LET does not contain a Twins Paradox.
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