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Surprisingly, by focusing on the time it takes light to travel between the two, the paradox can be explained. Both the traveler and homebody set their clocks at zero when the traveler leaves Earth ...
Paul Davies also does a nice job explaining the Twin Paradox in his book About Time (Touchstone 1995, ppf 59.) My explanation follows Davies?s closely; I hope my graph adds further clarity.
We can solve the twin paradox by looking at the whole picture. It's true that as long as Bob is flying along at a constant speed, he and Alice will fundamentally disagree about the flow of time ...
Often referred to as Einstein’s twin paradox, Einstein was known for focusing on the nature of time and clocks, doing so as part of his theories on relativity, so the topic can be referred to as ...
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