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Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox

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2 HN users recommended this explainer2 months2018–2021 score 2
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HN commenters recommend it as an easy-to-digest explanation of time dilation and the twin paradox.

A minutephysics explainer on the twins paradox in special relativity. It shows why the traveling twin ends up younger and how acceleration resolves the paradox.

“Minute Physics did a good couple of videos on this” (HN, 2018)

2 recommendations · 2 citations · Explainers · intro

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@MichaelApproved May 2021 Cites it
on HN thread Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light
When you accelerate away from me in an elevator, only one of us experiences additional forces during that acceleration. Only your body feels heavier as the elevator speeds up. Here’s a minute physics video that shows how acceleration explains the twins paradox (the “common” explanation) [this video] After you watch minute physics video, you might feel like you understand. Nope, can’t have any of that. Now, you must watch this Fermi lab video that says the common explanation is “not fundamentally correct” [link]
Shows common acceleration explanation, then contrasts with a correction
@godelski Sep 2021 Cites it
on HN thread Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
I'm pretty sure this doesn't work out because you have to slow down. So thinking about it, if you are traveling at that speed because of your inertial reference frame it is equivalent that everyone else around you is moving at (or near) the speed of light and they are moving slowly through time. This is the classic twin paradox and there is a resolution to it, which is that you can't instantaneously turn around.[0] Or in our case, we have to turn around to slow down. [0] [this video]
Cited for resolution of the twin paradox

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