On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> A is traveling at near light speed most of the trip. That's why B sees > A's clock slow > Yes. And from A's point of view he's standing still and B is traveling at near light speed, so A sees B's clock running slow. Both would see the others clock as running slow. However if A decided to join B so they could shake hands and directly compare the times their clocks show then A is going to have to accelerate, and then things would no longer be symmetrical, then A would see B's clock running FAST but B would still see A's clock run SLOW. So when they joined up again and compared clocks they would not match, B's clock would be ahead and B would have aged more than A. > So my question is this: Why does A's clock slowing turn out to be ACTUAL > (agreed by both A and B) when he stops at the center of the galaxy, and B's > slow clock slowing doesn't? > Because A stopped, and that means A must have accelerated but B did not. John K Clark -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
