Re: Honest Question Re Traveling Triplets

Uncle Al wrote:
> The *reference frame* has accelerated in the past,
> and that changes its mix of space and time relative
> to an unaccelerated frame.

Thanks for the interesting (but rather lengthy) response;
please bear with me while I try to correctly interpret it.

Since any and all accelerations (in the cases at hand) are
_temporary_, and since the new mixtures of space and time
are permanent, and therefore linger on even after the frames
are merely moving inertially, it seems to me that you must
be saying that frames which are currently merely moving at
different _speeds_ through space have different mixtures of
space & time. The following is based on my assumption that
this is true:

Ignoring for the time being the question How does acceleration
change a frame's mix of space & time, I will instead jump ahead
to ask the question What does "a particular frame's particular
mix of space and time" mean with regard to the frame's clocks?
That is, How does it physically affect them (or does it)?

While asking that question, I am picturing a simple array of
rods and clocks floating in space sans acceleration, and I am
trying to further picture how this frame differs physically
from all other such frames, and how this difference physically
affects clocks, or if it affects them.

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