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Two twins embark on the following idea. One twin, A, remains on earth and gets older using a clock measuring time t. The other, B, flies off on a voyage of speed υ relative to A. According to special relativity, his clock shows timedilation, being related to t by
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Streater, R. (2007). Other Lost Causes. In: Lost Causes in and beyond Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36582-2_12
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