EINSTEIN'S ANALYSIS OF THE TWIN PARADOX
EINSTEIN'S ANALYSIS OF THE TWIN PARADOX
EINSTEIN'S ANALYSIS OF THE TWIN PARADOX
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Some comments on Einstein’s analysis in 1918<br />
1. He does not use concepts like ‘change in the line of simultaneity’,<br />
asymmetric doppler shifts, preferential space-time diagrams etc…<br />
2. He justifies a result predicted as part of SR in 1905 with physical<br />
reasoning from a theory constructed in 1910 – 1915<br />
3. He says explicitly that as much as SR is applicable in the situation<br />
the time dilation is symmetrical, and the only asymmetry is<br />
gravitational, to be treated by GR<br />
4. He starts the article by saying that the paradox has not been<br />
addressed adequately before 1918 by relativists<br />
5. In the article he also makes a comment on the ether, that it is not<br />
fully dead, and was in fact resurrected in a different form by GR<br />
And, finally, the 1918 gravitational resolution does not succeed!
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