Timeline for Is the clock hand off version of the twin paradox real or fake?
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| Nov 1, 2019 at 18:25 | comment | added | ralfcis | The thing is you can't set a time that upsets other clocks that work under relativity's rules. | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | DoeJohn | What I want to say is: there is nothing mysterious in changing the hour of a clock to make it match the value that I want. | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 18:11 | comment | added | DoeJohn | Maybe I 'm improperly trivializing but this situation is somewhat analogous to when I change the hour on my clock for Daylight saving time. Obviously, when I do so I'm not experiencing a time travel :) | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | DoeJohn | You say that "the info instantaneously changes the clock". I don't know if I exactly understand what you mean by this. Anyway, the second ship's clock doesn't age in the same way as the hypothetical traveling twin. It simply registers the proper time of said twin, and this is simply because at the time the two ships meet, the clock was set up to do so. The fact that in the end this clock is 2 yrs less than Earth's one is not so surprising, then. | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 18:07 | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 17:56 | answer | added | benrg | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 17:54 | comment | added | ralfcis | Yup if the two ships change captains it becomes a proper twin paradox example as opposed to a clock info transfer example which I say is not really the same thing. The captains will experience a proper Rindler metric induced age difference which I guess will eventually agree with the fake clock info transfer induced age difference. | |
| Nov 1, 2019 at 17:46 | comment | added | DoeJohn | Well, imagine that, when the two ships sync their clocks, a person jumps from the first ship to the second one. Then the "clock info" represents the proper time of this hypothetical person, even if he/she doesn't exist at all. So yes, in the end the ship's clock is less than the Earth's clock. | |
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