Re: Twin Paradox paper available

From: Frank Hellmann (Certhas -at- gmail -dot- com) (Certhas_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:42:33 +0000 (UTC)

Russell Blackadar wrote:
> Yes, in practice; but if we (unphysically) allow infinite
> acceleration, we could reverse the orbit of twin B at the
> exact meeting event, and the ages will stay the same. In
> other words, the twin effect depends not only on acceleration,
> but on the distance between the twins when that acceleration
> occurs. If the distance is zero, the effect is nil.

You could probably actually take that limit physically (think of a
gausian shrinking to a delta distributuion), in the moment of infinite
acceleration you would then have finite ageing. In other words a
discontinuity in the proper time which jumps in the moment of infinite
acceleration.

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