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Re: Gamma demystified
Posted:
Sep 1, 2011 5:50 AM
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"Androcles" <Headmaster@Hogwarts.physics.August.31st.2011> wrote in message
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> "Peter Webb" <webbfamily@optusnetDIESPAMDIE.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4e5f2290$0$13389$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> | Gee, you talk as if you know something about physics. Please tell me the
> | answer to the following physics problem. There are 2 twins, one takes a
> | return trip to a star 10 light years away at a constant 0.9c. When they
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> | re-united, is the travelling twin younger, older or the same age as the
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> | at home twin?
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> Gee, you sputter and mumble as if you know nothing about mathematics
> or physics.
> The same age. Total round trip time = 2 * 0.9 * 10 = 18 years.
> To keep time the ship makes 18 revolutions on its own axis, synchronized
> with Earth.
> Or did you imagine the Earth makes some other number of orbits about
> the Sun, shithead?
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Yeah. I thought it was 2 * 10 / 0.9 = 22.22 years
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