Re: Question on relativity, time dilation and a couple of clocks


Zigoteau wrote:
> Hi, Steve,
>
> > One possible solution we arrived at (in our beer induced, uninformed
> > way!) was that the body that moves out of the common reference frame
> > (ie experiences a force to accelerate it) is the one that experiences
> > the slow down, whereas the fixed clock remains the same.
>
>
> That sounds eminently reasonable.

The problem there is that there's no reason to believe that either body
accelerated. They could have started out in relative motion, and set
their clocks to zero at the moment they whizzed by each other.

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