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pith:2012:QWJAZFUSOI4XUSRFSN75ME2JCS
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The twin paradox in relativity revisited

Vasant Natarajan

arxiv:1204.5651 v2 · 2012-03-20 · physics.class-ph · physics.pop-ph

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First computed 2026-05-18T03:51:48.496039Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85920c969272397a4a25937fd61349148babaff1f2293e317ea7f002aa681f9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5651 · arxiv_version: 1204.5651v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5651 · pith_short_12: QWJAZFUSOI4X · pith_short_16: QWJAZFUSOI4XUSRF · pith_short_8: QWJAZFUS
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QWJAZFUSOI4XUSRFSN75ME2JCS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 85920c969272397a4a25937fd61349148babaff1f2293e317ea7f002aa681f9d
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-20T11:50:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0220e3f3134a01df7d13b09f8694fb3102df0553cd6e494856a185466f1aeb8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5651",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}