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Twins Paradox

The Twins Paradox is a famous thought experiment showing a confusing potential outcome of time dilation predicted by Special Relativity.

Can any of the academics answering questions in either of these physics.stackexchange threads (one referencing the other) provide a satisfactory explanation of the Twins Paradox? You be the judge.

In fact, predicted responses to this Relativity Challenge are covered well.  On a humorous note, a summary of common assumptions are addressed in this satire.

Before Einstein's theories of relativity, a universal frame of reference was generally accepted.  The Lorentz Ether Theory (LET) continues to be a common alternate theory to relativity: The Twin Paradox in Special Relativity and in Lorentz Ether Theory