"kenseto" <kenseto@erinet.com> wrote in message news:da744972-da62-4866-98bb-d16e45448802@c1g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... On May 25, 8:06 am, "Peter Webb" <webbfam...@optusnetDIESPAMDIE.com.au> wrote: > "kenseto" <kens...@erinet.com> wrote in message > > news:455d6ece-9bff-49d7-9883-4ba4f93b65e2@b42g2000yqi.googlegroups.com... > On May 25, 7:37 am, "Peter Webb" > > > > > > <webbfam...@optusnetDIESPAMDIE.com.au> wrote: > > "kenseto" <kens...@erinet.com> wrote in message > > >news:c228ff36-90ab-4508-b868-42a50852015a@x10g2000yqj.googlegroups.com... > > On May 24, 6:59 pm, "Peter Webb" > > > <webbfam...@optusnetDIESPAMDIE.com.au> wrote: > > > "Koobee Wublee" <koobee.wub...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > > >news:2771d2eb-4323-4c54-8369-72cd035122fa@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > > > On May 23, 8:47 pm, Tom Roberts wrote: > > > > > Peter Webb wrote: > > > > > So what would happen if the Twins paradox was actually tried? > > > > > It has been, several times, in several different ways. Measurements > > > > are > > > > in > > > > agreement with the predictions of relativity (SR or GR, depending on > > > > details). > > > > This is just not true. SR predicts the fallacy in the Twins > > > paradox. In real life, one would expect no such paradox. <shrug> > > > > _________________________________ > > > So what would happen in real life? Would the travelling twin be > > > younger, > > > older or the same age as the stay-at-home twin when they are > > > re-united? > > > The same age....the traveling twin's year is worth gamma years on the > > stay at home clock. > > > ________________________________ > > So if the twins were muons, and one twin was whizzing around a cyclotron > > at > > a speed close to light, and the other was stationary with respect to the > > cyclotron, would they be the same age when re-united?- > > The muon in the cyclotron has a higher state of absolute motion and > thus 2.2us on the lab clock enable it to travel a much larger distance > than the lab muon before decaying. > > __________________________________ > Hmmm. A higher state of absolute motion, huh? > > You haven't answered the question. Will the muons be the same age when > re-united?
Yes it has 2.2 us according to the lab clock. It travel a longer distance in 2.2 us than the lab muon because it has a higher state of absolute motion after acceleration in the cyclotron.
__________________________________ But numerous experiments show that the travelling muons decay slower, this has been directly confirmed in cyclotrons.
