Relativity and the Twin Paradox
The story of this exposition starts one Friday night when I decided to spend quality time on the subject of special theory of relativity with the famous “Lectures on Physics” (I-15 in Volume I) by Richard Feynman. In this, Feynman addresses the so called twin paradox. Although Feynman is always fun to read, I figured that his explanation was on the lean side and decided to delve deeper into the subject. Truth be told, you can find many discussions of this so called paradox; some a manifest of good science as in Wikipedia, others revealing “novel discoveries” from new Einsteins.
A good one from the Louisiana State University: The Daily Reveille Online Edition Issue date: 2/23/07 reads: “Professor solves Einstein’s twin paradox”, the reader may enjoy reading the clip and some of the responses. Better yet, Wang Guowen from the College of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China, in January 25, 2005. In his paper “Einstein’s concept of a clock and clock paradox”, found that the slowing time is altogether a blemish in Einstein’s theory. I hope the following exposition sheds light on the matter and provides a good introduction to relativistic kinematics.
Relativity and the Twin Paradox
Update
For further reading, you can read the English translation of Einstein’s 1905 paper that started it all, On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies