On Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 4:44:13 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> your traveling twin somehow turns around without acceleration* *Forget about acceleration, you're never going to understand the twin "paradox" if you become obsessed over that because, as I've mentioned before, there is a way to express it without any twin undergoing any acceleration. But even in that case there is no paradox, the only reason people think there is one is because they forget there is no universal agreement about simultaneity. * *Brent claims that using slingshot in a gravity field, he can avoid all acceleration. So who is obsessed, and with what? How does the traveling twin separate from his twin if they're initially juxtaposed? In free fall along a slingshot path? Not only has he changed the TP model to get the result he desires, but he is still unable to avoid acceleration. AG* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2dddca48-ece7-48d4-873b-3c56ff9c5e79n%40googlegroups.com.
