The twin paradox in the presence of gravity
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🌀 gr-qc
keywords
twingravitykinematicagingbrothercompensateconventionaldistortion
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Conventional wisdom, based on kinematic (flat-space) intuition, tell us that a static twin is aging faster than his traveling twin brother. However, such a situation could be exactly inverted if the two twins are embedded in an external gravitational field, and if the (dynamical) distortion of the space-time geometry, due to gravity, is strong enough to compensate the kinematic effect of the relative twin motion.
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