Einstein, Gravity, and the Twin Paradox (Einstein's 1918 Solution)

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Surprisingly few people are aware of Einstein's preferred solution to the Twin Paradox, which he detailed in a 1918 paper. We examine this solution, purported to take place within the framework of General Relativity, in hopes of finally finding an explanation to the twin paradox that can appease our empathic skepticism. Along the way we learn a thing or two about the nature of gravity, the distinctions between special and general relativity, and the philosophy of motion.
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  • @jrv634
    @jrv6343 жыл бұрын

    I follow multiple physics channels weekly and I can say this is the only video I've seen that actually throws some light on the twins' paradox

  • @mikkel715

    @mikkel715

    2 жыл бұрын

    Put "Paradox" in double quotes. Because there is no paradox. As Sean Carrol explains in "Biggest ideas in the Universe"

  • @michaelbariso3192

    @michaelbariso3192

    Жыл бұрын

    Time and distance cannot be relative to other objects in space-time as that would violate the law of conservation of energy. To travel distance requires potential energy, an observer can have no effect a moving objects kinetic energy-Relativity debunked. Testing the speed light in on Earth is like riding a bicycle up hill, gravity will show you down. The biggest threat to humanity is human stupidity. The theory of everything according to humans that believe their intellect evolved from a monkey's brain. If the light waves from the sun were 8 minutes and 20 seconds in a past dimension of Einstein's space-time then people on Earth are just imagining the infrared warmth of the sun coming up on the horizon. The communications delay between Earth and Mars is approximately 20 minutes. We're either viewing the light from Mars in the future, Einstein's past dimensions of space-time or in real time, which do you think is more logical? Einstein's relativity is wrong light has no limitation of speed; it cannot be slowed down because it isn't moving. From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in both directions. Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. According to Einstein's relativity-time dilation's, photos taken of the Earth from the Discovery Space station traveled from the past to the future violating the laws of physics, conservation of energy and common sense. According to Einstein's projectile light particle proton light has a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second moving through spacetime, but if light has a (constant speed) then moving clocks cannot run slow through spacetime! :-) The speed of light according to Einstein's relativity is 186,000 miles per second, but according to physics if two mechanical watches were synchronized on earth and one traveled across the universe and back, there would be no difference in time between the mechanical watches proving the speed of light is instantaneous as the only way a mechanical watch will run slow is if you tighten the main spring. Big Bang, Einstein's relativity-time dilation and nearly all of science debunked. Using optical clocks, lasers and GPS to prove Einstein's time dilation-space-time curvature is like using a metal detector to find gold at Fort Knox. The closer you are to the electromagnetic fields, mass and gravity of the earth the more light bends aka gravitational lensing. If the speed of light is constant then past and future dimensions of spacetime and an expanding universe would not be possible, obviously destroying the twins paradox as each twin cannot move faster or slower than the other. A mirror is a wave reflector that flips images from left to right, but according to Einstein the images you see are the result of projectile light particle photons being transported into past and future dimensions of space-time. Explain how particle light photons can re-converge their molecular structures in mirrors and how this is done without violating the law of conservation of energy. From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in all directions (forwards and backwards through Einstein's space-time) while violating the law of conservation of energy. Explain how Einstein's projectile light particle proton can travel all directions having a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second. Einstein would have made a great used car salesman :-). Light waves can stretch, bend-curve and occupy a state of superposition, whereas the hypothetical Einstein projectile light particle (photon), a particle that has never been observed cannot. Unlike a TV or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of frames that create the appearance of a moving image. There are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just video recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. Neither time, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. Time and space are independent of each other, not material bodies or fantasy unions that magically stretch Time, energy, and matter like a rubber band into space-time dimensions. Einstein's projectile light particle proton has a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second moving through spacetime and because so wavelengths of light cannot stretch through spacetime! Red-shifts are simply the result of decelerating electrons, as moving electrons of charged electromagnetic waves-light travel through the plasma of the universe each lump (or "quanta") of energy in the electromagnetic waves are charged then discharged to the next lump, eventually the energy dissipates causing the delay in radio communications giving the appearance of time dilation - longer wavelengths in red shift. Will the James Webb Telescope view the birth of the first galaxies? Nope, the universe goes on to infinity. Neither time, the atom, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. The James Webb Space Telescope is not a time machine, you can’t travel back in time to view the beginning of the universe with telescopes that were made in the future :-). Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. If science uses Einstein's wrongly theorized speed of light like an odometer to calculate past dimensions of distance and time, then using that same method to calculate forward dimensions of distance and time would mean the Big Bang was created and expanded in the future before time existed. Unlike a television or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of still image frames that hypothetical Einstein projectile light particles photons create to give us the appearance of a moving image :-). The speed of electromagnetic wave is 186,282 miles per second vs Einstein's projectile light particle proton at 186,000 miles per second. Is this a coincidence or did Einstein plagiarize yet another phenomenon to fit the math of relativity? Electromagnetic waves in space can neither slow down or speed up, this is consistent with the law of conservation of energy. If light slowed down, its energy would decrease, thereby violating the law of conservation of energy so the speed of light is instantaneous and cannot travel slower than it does. If Einstein's projectile light (particle photon) had mass it's light could not travel across the universe, high speed particles traveling at 186,000 miles per second would break the Hubble and James Webb telescope mirrors, debunking the speed of light, Big Bang, Einstein's relativity and any science that uses relativity in their theories. Similar to a mirror light is a real-time wave reflector where light and images travel in straight lines-in all directions in space as they do on earth. The faintest stars and galaxies are neither in a past or future dimension of Einstein's space-time, they're in real-time. Everyone knows cell phone electromagnetic radio waves travel both ways, yet Einstein's disciples believe time energy, mass and light can only travel one way back in time. If you simply run the Big Bang theory in reverse you reveal the insanity of Einstein's relativity and Big Bang theory. If the expansion of the Big Bang were true, time, energy, mass and light would be in the future from the vantage point of an expanding singularity-Big Bang and planet Earth would now reside in a past dimension of Einstein's time dilation (moving clocks run slow) space-time 13.8 billion years ago :-). From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in both directions (forwards and backwards through Einstein's space-time) while violating the law of conservation of energy. Explain how Einstein's projectile light particle proton can travel in both directions having a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second :-) It's truly amazing how the science and politics of the left are able to keep people denying reality, there are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space, yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. Pretending not to notice the gross contradictions-pseudoscience in Relativity is typical of Einstein's disciples, devaluing the source of any information that's in contradiction with their beliefs-theories. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. If the light from the universe travels to past dimensions of time then it's light is also traveling into future dimensions of time (instantaneously). “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” a state of superposition where time and gravity run inwardly, outwardly, in all directions in the same time frame, similar to the electromagnetic field having no beginning and no end. The Doppler effect is wrongly conflated with cosmological Redshift. As one approaches a blowing horn the perceived pitch is higher until the horn is reached, then becomes lower as the horn is passed. This phenomenon is caused by the physical movement of a mechanical soundwave traveling through the medium of air, similar to throwing a rock in a pond, the rock creates physical movement in the medium of water. Cosmological Redshifts are merely the GoPro fisheye effect where wavelengths appear to lengthen-stretch from the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End" Magnetron

  • @mikkel715

    @mikkel715

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michaelbariso3192 Writing a conspiracy book in a comments doesn't give all the viewers and readers you want. I didn't read all carefully. But the Doppler effect is actually by the Quantum Wave function properties and combined with Maxwell's equation, it is real with a fixed speed of light, and non fixed speed of observer. Eugene Khutoryansky explains this in his Particle/Wave duality video. ("Waves: Light, Sound, and the nature of Reality") Eugene Khutoryansky is making a good explanation of conservation for different observers in his relativity videos. ("Einstein's Gravito-Electromagnetism, Gravity of moving mass in General Relativity") In his video about Quantum Entanglement and Bell Inequality is very good explanation about instantaneous and relativity. It's at the end of that video. ("Quantum Entanglement, Bell Inequality, EPR paradox") .

  • @michaelbariso3192

    @michaelbariso3192

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikkel715 Time and distance cannot be relative to other objects in space-time as that would violate the law of conservation of energy. To travel distance requires potential energy, an observer can have no effect on a moving objects kinetic energy-Relativity debunked. Light travels in both directions, anyone having a conversation with their friends understands this simple phenomenon yet Einstein's disciples believe people on earth are time traveling backwards and forwards in space-time relative to one another. Don't drink the Kool-Aid folks :-) Testing the speed light in on Earth is like riding a bicycle up hill, gravity will show you down. The biggest threat to humanity is human stupidity. If the light waves from the sun were 8 minutes and 20 seconds in a past dimension of Einstein's space-time then people on Earth are just imagining the infrared warmth of the sun coming up on the horizon :-) Traveling at a different speed from the stationary clock having no universal time, all the stars, planets and galaxies would be in a different place in the universe so distance for the observer could never be calculated. Twins paradox debunked again Einstein Relativity 1=2 Fantasy Physics, Wave-Particle Duality, Photon, ... kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpeepMaNp6mcpps.html via @KZread Special Relativity is Einstein's Biggest Blunder! First Principles Persp... kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZei28uFdtSyXbQ.html via @KZread

  • @michaelbariso3192

    @michaelbariso3192

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikkel715 When Einstein's disciples are unable defend relativity they deflect from having to answer questions by redirecting the questions on you aka deflection-misdirection. When disciples discover you're onto their tactics they'll use character assassinations, ad hominem attacks or call you stupid to avoid cognitive dissonance, the reality of knowing everything they've ever believed that was a lie.

  • @echoromeo384
    @echoromeo384 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos have the most exacting and thorough ideas of GR and physics on KZread. Others just hope the viewers don't pick apart their arguments and philosophies while you have an excellent real world grasp on the subjects. Thanks brother, keep em coming.

  • @youlio10
    @youlio103 жыл бұрын

    I love you and your videos, I thought of being crazy trying to understand the paradox from other KZread videos or articles. Please hurry up with the sequel, I need it for my school thesis!

  • @bacsi8337

    @bacsi8337

    Жыл бұрын

    Howdy Giulio Ferraro. Consider this. The deeper the gravity well, the slower time passes with respect to those farther away. The faster an object travels away from a gravity well, the slower time passes with respect to those stationary with respect to the gravity well. Imagine that I can slow down time 99.999% in a sphere 9 inches in diameter surrounding a lit candle. From the outside, all you would see is a black hole because you would only be able to see a photon of light escape .001% of your time frame. What would an ant see if it was on the side of the candle? It would see a cloud of light in the form of a million years of photons arriving in almost an instant. The reason Black Hole slows down time so much is its gravity. Light is emanating from a Black Hole, only our time frame is so much faster that we cannot spot the photons as they leave and pass through our time frame. When we see a galaxy farther away from the Universe center, we see it accelerating away from us because it is farther away from the collective mass of the Universe. Persons in the distant galaxies look at galaxies closer to the Center of the Universe and see them traveling much slower because their perspective of time is moving faster than ours. We look at stars closer to our galaxy center and see them orbiting the Galaxy’s Black Hole so slowly that we wonder why they don’t fall into it. If we were standing on a planet orbiting a star close to that same Black Hole, we would wonder why the stars on the outer edge of the Galaxy don’t fly off into space because they are traveling way too fast to stay in orbit. Many scientists attribute those phenomena to Dark Matter and Dark Energy. But its really General Relativity.

  • @chrisracer2007

    @chrisracer2007

    Жыл бұрын

    My friend from school really recommended you and I just wanted to let you guys know that I am really impressed! Your work is amazing

  • @bacsi8337

    @bacsi8337

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jasond8953 Always have fun with quantum technologies :) q off

  • @mdoliner526
    @mdoliner52611 ай бұрын

    I never understood why the paradox was not presented with the twins in symmetrical motion. What if both traveled in opposite directions, turned at the same time, and returned. During the periods of constant motion each would see the others clock as going slower. Whatever happened when they turned would happen to both. Then when they returned at constant speed each would see the other's clock as going slower. When they meet each twin should be younger and older than the other.

  • @titsorass4553

    @titsorass4553

    8 ай бұрын

    they'll both be the same age

  • @justopastorlambare2933

    @justopastorlambare2933

    7 ай бұрын

    Relativity gives a precise and unambiguous solution for that case too.

  • @Josiejen9
    @Josiejen93 жыл бұрын

    Like others, I think these are fascinating videos. Can you please hurry up with the next one - I've been waiting over 2 months, lol.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! Sorry for the long wait, and please be patient with us, we promise more to come :-)

  • @doBobro
    @doBobro Жыл бұрын

    Great series. It's a real shock to be unable to answer your questions on the basis of my current SR knowledge or a lack of it to be precise :)) One can say I had a shaky ground in the first place, but from my perspective it crumbles and cracks are everywhere.

  • @justopastorlambare2933
    @justopastorlambare2933 Жыл бұрын

    So far, the best twin paradox discussion I've seen. Congratulation!

  • @justopastorlambare2933

    @justopastorlambare2933

    7 ай бұрын

    @@nadirceliloglu397 Sorry, anyone who understands special relativity knows the solution to the paradox. I like the video because it explains Einstein's confusion with his gravitational theory. He initially thought GR resolved the relative motion problem proving Mach's principle. It turned out that he was wrong, he could not prove Mahc's principle but found a wonderful gravitation theory that is called "General Relativity" only for historical reasons.

  • @MyName-gl1bs
    @MyName-gl1bs Жыл бұрын

    Great video series on the twin paradox...this one was tough to follow, though!

  • @bismajoyosumarto1237
    @bismajoyosumarto12373 жыл бұрын

    16:02 "Don't leave! I'm still confused, dam**#@!" Same, bro, same.

  • @shugyosha7924
    @shugyosha79242 жыл бұрын

    You have the best videos about the twin paradox. Thanks so much!

  • @doctor_4
    @doctor_43 жыл бұрын

    You're just awesome Dialect. I'm interested in science for years and have never seen such a tough problem like this before. I've been trying to understand how such phenomena exists for hours. For every explanation I've read, I was like "Well, symmetry is still not broken! This explanation can't be right!". People just "accept" what science videos and websites tell them to "believe" but you embrace real skeptical thinking in your perfectly made videos. Keep making these awesome videos pal!

  • @caveman36
    @caveman362 жыл бұрын

    Literally just commented the first solution on your second video. Glad to see it addressed 😃

  • @uavtech
    @uavtech4 ай бұрын

    A non-hand waving explaination. GREAT WORK!! On to your next video. 😊

  • @ferdinandkraft857
    @ferdinandkraft8572 жыл бұрын

    The animations are so witty! Good job!

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! :-)

  • @synx6988
    @synx69889 ай бұрын

    Awesome stuff! Been binge watching all your stuff. I need a better case for acceleration not being absolute, as I am not 100% on board with that yet. Also I need to know what we meassure on "twin paradox clocks" in real experiments. Keep up the good work!

  • @beamshooter

    @beamshooter

    5 ай бұрын

    There isn't a good case for non-absolute acceleration.

  • @marshallsweatherhiking1820

    @marshallsweatherhiking1820

    4 ай бұрын

    @@beamshooterMy understanding is that it’s the conservation principles that determine whether a reference frame is allowed to claim it is inertial (non-accelerating). So, a fre-falling frame of reference is inertial. The problem is it is only inertial locally. I.e you have to “zoom in” to the point where the source of the gravitational field as at an infinite distance. On the large scale though, the need to invent an infinitely massive object at an infinite distance to explain the uniform acceleration of a spaceship really doesn’t make sense, especially when in that same reference frame, any real propulsion mechanism would behave in a completely unphysical manner. I mean, normally for a ship to change direction it must eject part of its mass in the opposite direction. In the non-accelerated reference frame this ejected mass has no effect on the ship, which makes no sense.

  • @leadersheir9377
    @leadersheir93773 жыл бұрын

    Please post more frequently 🙏🙏🙏 Absolutely love your videos!

  • @bodyofalegend

    @bodyofalegend

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree! I’ve already made a few KZread videos about Nikola Tesla but this video has now inspired me to make one about Einstein!

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you guys, we appreciate the support!

  • @joeboxter3635

    @joeboxter3635

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy Please explain what and how to covariantly extend SR!!!

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joeboxter3635 There's some great videos out there already actually by Eigenchris on the topic. Look up his "rindler coordinates" series and you'll learn about covariantly-extended SR. (Though his videos are somewhat technically more difficult and may require some prior study first.)

  • @fkeyvan
    @fkeyvan3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. This is incredible.

  • @user-lz1yb6qk3f
    @user-lz1yb6qk3f4 ай бұрын

    13:38 Shouldn't be acceleration in gravity assist maneuver also absolute?

  • @user-lb8qx8yl8k
    @user-lb8qx8yl8k Жыл бұрын

    After thinking about this for a while i began to wonder why there's no mention of the simple concept of the inertial reference frame. The frame where the traveling twin is at rest is not an inertial reference frame. Why? The 'stay at home twin' who can be seen as a free particle (a particle which is not subjected to an external force) does not travel in a straight line. Hence, in that reference frame, there's a fictitious force acting on the stay at home twin which yields the APPARENT acceleration. The frame where the stay at home twin is seen as stationary is, on the other hand, inertial. That's why all the analysis should be done in that reference frame.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    We talk about inertial frame in other our videos in our twin paradox series -- unfortunately, due their ambiguous definitions and inherently mathematical nature, they can't be used to determine the agent of asymmetry in the paradox.

  • @user-lb8qx8yl8k

    @user-lb8qx8yl8k

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy -- Thanks for the reply. Your videos really made me rethink the twin paradox. And I realize it's resolution wasn't quite as simple as I thought. You're videos are amongst my favorites. That said, I'm really only familiar with one definition of an inertial reference frame. We learn it in a first semester course on Newton's laws of motion. An inertial reference frame is a frame in which F=ma is satisfied where F is the net external force acting on a mass m. That's how it's defined in special relativity with the additional assumption that gravity is not present. This is _equivalent_ to saying that the worldline of a free particle is straight in an inertial reference frame. An object has constant velocity if it's worldline is straight within an inertial reference frame. In the formulation of the traveling twin problem, it is tacitly presumed that one twin, the "stay at home twin," is a free particle and the other is not. We take Bob to be the free particle and Alice to be the particle that is subjected to an external force at the point of the u-turn. The reference frame which Alice is at rest is non-inertial because Bob's worldline is not straight in that reference frame. The reference frame in which Bob is at rest is inertial. Alice's worldline is not straight but Alice is, by definition, not a free particle. I just saw the other video. Maybe I need to watch it a second time, but you seem to dispute the fact that the traveling twin does not stay within a single reference frame.

  • @thalianero1071
    @thalianero1071 Жыл бұрын

    I have found your videos on this topic unclear, even with having watched the bucket video. But my current understanding of your argument is that using acceleration to resolve the paradox requires you to choose an inertial frame against which to define the acceleration (typically, the frame of one of the twins). Is your assertion that any measurement of acceleration on the part of the twins depends on your choice of inertial frame? Do you think each choice of frame is a separate instance of the problem, or that all choices of frame should be valid for the single instance of the problem?

  • @TheTannertech
    @TheTannertech Жыл бұрын

    This topic is so immensely complex holy shit, thank you for the breakdowns.

  • @tesfayeawgchew8485
    @tesfayeawgchew8485 Жыл бұрын

    What a briliant explanetion thank you!

  • @caperider1160
    @caperider11607 ай бұрын

    This is where experimental physics rocks! Should we have enough resources to carry out this and all other iterations as experiments and obtain results, all problems will be solved. One day. Hopefully. BTW, this video is the most impressive version of twin patadox explanation i have come across. I personally think the twin will age the same.

  • @brianwatson9687

    @brianwatson9687

    4 ай бұрын

    We already have done the experiment with an airplane flying around the world using atomic clocks. What you personally think is irrelevant. And also wrong.

  • @youtubebane7036
    @youtubebane7036 Жыл бұрын

    Seems to me that the time I left for both twins would be the same because of the directions of travel. I would think that traveling away would be a different amount of time compared to traveling towards and they would equal out in the end. And doesn't the velocity account for the amount of time too even if it is a constant velocity? So basically it would be the acceleration or the bump or the jolt that caused the effect but why would one be more than the other if they are both at rest in their own framework?

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын

    11:15: is this non-transformability also true for a lagrangepoint? As you cannot deduce the deviation in position from it as it is identical at all directions, so could be mistaken for flat spacetime. While time dilation is still at hand!

  • @abiuniverse
    @abiuniverse Жыл бұрын

    Does uniform gravitational field means no change in the value of acceleration due to gravity(g) throughout the universe? Then it means there is no source because if that were the case you would see a decreasing value of g as you move away from it. That means you cannot say clocks far away from you are moving faster because there is no source which centred at you or somewhere.

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 Жыл бұрын

    Inertial frames of reference, thank you for discussing this!! 👍

  • @juniorcyans2988
    @juniorcyans2988 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a sophomore of physics. So far the benefit of being a physics student is that I've been lucky to discern which videos make sense. I just learned special relativity in my Modern Physics class in the past two weeks of this semester, this video makes a lot of sense to me! Actually I love the video because it corrects the misleading other videos made. Science digs for truth, this is why I love science!

  • @stewiesaidthat

    @stewiesaidthat

    Жыл бұрын

    This video is misleading also. It doesn't explain why electronic devices in motion run slower than stationary devices. It doesn't explain how acceleration/gravity impacts cellular functions.

  • @juniorcyans2988

    @juniorcyans2988

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stewiesaidthat One video can’t cover everything right? Actually it uses Michelson-Morley experiment without explanation, fortunately I learned in my class so I know what it means.

  • @stewiesaidthat

    @stewiesaidthat

    Жыл бұрын

    @Junior Cyans one video can cover everything. 1) Motion changes the electromagnetic wavelength, which changes the frequency. 2) Electromagnetic waves travel independently of the source. 3) A change in force on the source necessitates a change in force of the electromagnetic wave. 4) Electronic devices operate at a constant frequency. 5) Clocks measure motion and synchronized clocks measure relative motion. There is no time-dilation. One clock is just moving through space faster than the other. If you want to compare the effects of space travel on the human body, you must reference NASA's data. None of these videos do that. They just run you through silly math problems that are improperly applied. A slower running clock means slower running electronics. You have to look elsewhere to discern if there is a difference in aging due to other forces.

  • @juniorcyans2988

    @juniorcyans2988

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stewiesaidthat lol that would be a lot of work to do. Anyways pions decay before they reach the speed of light. What we calculated in class kinda proved time does dilate.

  • @stewiesaidthat

    @stewiesaidthat

    Жыл бұрын

    @Junior Cyans lol yourself. Matter gets turned into energy as it approaches the speed of light. Increasing that rate is not time-dilation. Frozen embryos were hatched out 30 years later. Is that time dilation? Plants grow faster on warm sunny days than cold cloudy days. Is that time-dilation? Children reach puberty sooner on a high protein diet. Is that time-dilation. It takes longer to drive 1000 miles than it does to fly 1000 miles. Is that time-dilation. Everything is in time-dilation because everything moves at different speeds - applied force. Solving the twin paradox is just a matter of identifying the frame of reference. Determining what the applied forces are. And how the frame of reference responds to the applied force. To understand why there is no difference in aging, you need knowledge about biology, what is it source of energy is and the rate of consumption. But you first need to reject this notion that motion causes time-dilation.

  • @imaginingPhysics
    @imaginingPhysics2 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a video about rotating frames and the Ehrenfest paradox!

  • @utkuaraskula2348
    @utkuaraskula23483 жыл бұрын

    if we assume, one particle was seperated to two particle. each particle has same mass and velocity(same momentum) but opposite direction. there no extra particle(mass) to curve spacetime. spacetime is equally curved in this region. some time after, each particle collides same obstacle(same mass, same collision friction) and turn back to initial point. in this scenario, there no gravitational force, no accelarition(or same for each particle), no rocket thrust, first particle say that i am standing still, i am older you are younger, second particle say that i am standing still, i am older you are younger. which one is true?

  • @stiffyvokes2404
    @stiffyvokes24042 жыл бұрын

    5:08 literally said out loud one second before that "how does it work?"

  • @tricky778
    @tricky778 Жыл бұрын

    Around 10:40: Which 'instantaneously' do you mean? At the same time-ordinate in the proper frame of the spaceship or on the lightcone of the event in which the rocket fires to make a step change in velocity?

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    The instantaneity would occur in the frame of the genesis of the acceleration; for frames of observers nearby this vanishing would not appear to be instantaneous, but rather the spacetime separation between the events appear to be space-like, which is still in violation of causality.

  • @tricky778

    @tricky778

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy that doesn't answer the question, I think, to be self consistent it would have to be the same line at arbitrarily small times before and after the acceleration in those moments' respective frames otherwise the acceleration would be asymmetric; I think this forces us to take the usual lightcone for instantaneously, but perhaps it doesn't matter because all we're doing is cutting and pasting bits of equivalent diagrams for an impossible extreme acceleration until we also have some nonrotational equivalent of frame dragging (I don't know anything about this subject I'm just supposing something I might investigate). And unless we're instead going to take the integral of all the step accelerations in a continuous acceleration to find a causal upper bound to the rate of acceleration we're not going to learn much from the exercise

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tricky778 Hm, not sure we're following your reasoning here, though your line about "non-rotational frame dragging" peaked our interest. Could you reframe the question you are trying to ask in a different way perhaps?

  • @tricky778

    @tricky778

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy I don't know enough to pick the right terms. I was saying that if we're to make a diagram by cutting and pasting that has one solution for the properties at each point then the two inertial diagrams from before and after the momentum exchange mustn't overlap and so the cuts must be on the light cones. Then I note that it's all a silliness unless we're to introduce some other curvature due to the event which I thought would be a component similar to what we call frame dragging for rotating masses. I hoped to elicit discussion of these matters.

  • @tricky778

    @tricky778

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually, consistency only forces us to paste the first frame inside the past lightcone and the after frame in the future lightcone, we can either have discontinuities at the cones or vary gamma in between. We could vary it in any way such that the integral of cuts and the integral of their valid joining curved spaces satisfies essential laws. Having thought more, I wonder if the Lorentz transform of inertial space is the counterpart to frame dragging and so it's already incorporated. I need to study but I don't have faith that I'll remember anything or that it'll pay off if I do

  • @dennisbrown5313
    @dennisbrown53132 жыл бұрын

    Some valid points and interesting ideas

  • @berndmayer3984
    @berndmayer3984 Жыл бұрын

    The Twin "Paradox" also works without acceleration. The decisive factor is a one-time change of the reference frame for one of the persons involved.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    A change of reference frame is proper acceleration, and yes it is required for the paradox. However, the change of reference frame is debunked in curved spacetime, where the non-inertial or frame-changing observer can age more than the inertial one. Check out our video "The Twin Paradox in Curved Spacetime" for more.

  • @markcollinscope

    @markcollinscope

    9 ай бұрын

    See my 'thought experiment' about 5 comments up. Is that similar to your 'without acceleration' perspective?

  • @inteallsviktigt

    @inteallsviktigt

    6 ай бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophyhow would this change if we used two planets that travel away from each other? As in we have two planets in two mirror galaxies that are neighbors, and as the planets travels perpendicular to each other and perceive the other as accelerating away as they both travel a galactic cycle before returning to each other.

  • @erinm9445

    @erinm9445

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy How would the paradox work if one twin were on the earth, and the other were in a long eliptical orbit around the earth, that came very close to the earth on one end of the orbit, close enough that the twins could more or less instantly compare clocks via electronic communication? In that case, neither twin would experience acceleration. Or, at least, neither twin would experience non-gravitational acceleration.

  • @keithdubose2150

    @keithdubose2150

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@dialectphilosophy never heard a change in reference frame defined as proper acceleratoon. Float head physics shows how the paradox is explained with triplets .. where only constant velocities, with only a 'hand off' of reference frame.. can demonstrate the resolution with out acceleration.

  • @c.s.4273
    @c.s.42735 ай бұрын

    At 6:24 you are mistaken when equaling both phases of the constant velocity as the inbound phase is when space traveller sees time on earth running much faster than the slowing of time on earth during outbound phase.

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky3 жыл бұрын

    First of all, it was not "my" explanation, but Einstein's explanation. You are claiming that Einstein was wrong, which you are welcome to do, but please realize that this is what you are doing. As for the specific criticism, a uniform gravitational field throughout the entire universe does not need a cause, because it is consistent with Einstein's Field Equations. This is the same way in which, even if there were no electric charges, a uniform electric field throughout the universe is consistent with Maxwell's equations.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Einstein did not develop his theory overnight -- his opinion on multiple aspects of his theory changed over time, and his 1918 paradox solution was part of his working through ideas. Certainly he later recanted on his advocacy of the General Principle of Relativity, a principle which your video wrongly espouses. Please do not discredit our video simply because you failed to sufficiently research yours. And a real field does need a source -- this is a fundamental principle of what defines "real". You can have all sorts of fictitious fields that are consistent with field equations, this does not mean that they are real. And a "uniform electric field throughout the universe" is consistent with Maxwell's equations? An electric field cannot originate without a source, so if you are implying that a universal electric field can spontaneously come into existence and cover the entire universe you perhaps ought to take a second look at Maxwell's equations.

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky

    @EugeneKhutoryansky

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy Einstein did not recant the General Principle of Relativity. This is what the entire General Theory of Relativity is based on. As for the analogy to Maxwell's equations, a uniform electric field has a divergence and a curl that is equal to zero everywhere (for both the E field and the B field). This simultaneously satisfies all four of Maxwell's equations in a universe with no electric charge.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EugeneKhutoryansky Eugene, you need to re-read the works of Einstein, if you've even read them at all. Perhaps focus on the 1918 years, and the response to the criticism he received from Kretschmann. While Einstein certainly hoped to put acceleration on equal footing with all other types of motion, and while it indeed motivated his development of GR, he openly acknowledged that he did not achieve such a result this with his theories. Acceleration is absolute in GR, and it can be objectively identified by any observer in any frame. Any novice student of GR knows and recognizes this. It is disconcerting that you, as a self-purported expert of physics, do not understand this basic concept. The idea that a uniform gravitational field covering all of the universe, which arises when an observer accelerates, can be interpreted as real is not Einstein's idea. Furthermore, it is not even an idea that is accepted or espoused in mainstream physics. It is one-hundred percent your idea. And given the untenable lengths you have to gone to to uphold it -- via invoking a poorly contextualized electric field analogy -- it is clearly not an easy idea to defend. In fact, let's take a look at why your electric field analogy is simply bad physics: 1) You are confusing a static situation (i.e. a constant uniform electric field) with a dynamical one (a field which at first does not exist, then arises to cover the entire universe, then disappears again) 2) Maxwell's equations, which clearly couple all fields to matter (with the exception only of propagating radiative solutions), certainly permits 'vacuum solutions' for local patches of space with no matter inside them, in which divergence and curl are zero. But it is implied, via the other equations, that fields which exist in these local patches still have sources outside of the region of consideration. There is nothing in Maxwell's equations which allows us to expand this local patch of space to encompass the entire universe, especially since boundaries conditions are infinity must at some point be factored in. Furthermore, empirically speaking, no electric field has ever been observed without a source, so your claim that it exists and can be real is highly dubious. 3) Even if we expanded our local region of space to cover the entire universe, and make the absurd assertion that a sourceless uniform electric field contained within it could still exist and "be real", this still doesn't change the fact that this field is and constant and static, and therefore does not apply to the situation we are discussing. The situation we are discussing involves a dynamic field, one that changes over time, since the field is not at first present, then arises, and then disappears again. This changing flux throughout the entire universe is in no way analogous to a "constant uniform electric field", and to continue to make that analogy is poor physics. As a promoter of physics with a wide and numerous audience on KZread, you have a responsibility to convey concepts of physics with accuracy and precision, and not to simply promote the lowest-rung misconceptions which permeate many a newcomer's understanding. By continuing to senselessly spout arguments that bear no relevance to the actual concept at hand, and to make claims which you have clearly not researched and cannot actual back up with any sources other than your own self-endowed authority, you are clearly failing in that responsibility.

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky

    @EugeneKhutoryansky

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy Please provide the reference where you believe Einstein recanted the General Principle of Relativity.

  • @corwin-7365

    @corwin-7365

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy said: _"An electric field cannot originate without a source."_ That is a statement of _opinion_ on your part, not a statement of physics principles (although I guess it depends on what you mean by a "source" since you didn't really specify that). Under Maxwell's Equations, electric & magnetic fields are defined simply as valid SOLUTIONS to the equations. From the formula an electric field can arise from electric charges, changing magnetic fields, as a uniform constant, or as as an appropriate combination of these.

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies6 ай бұрын

    I am absolutely loving the deep explanatory power of the River Model of General Relativity. But now I am very much wanting to know what properties space must have for it to work correctly. It seems space drags on mass, to create the effect we feel as gravity, and I refer to this as being "slammed by space", because when you jump off a rooftop, it is the flow of space which slams you to the ground, instead of apparently breaking Newtons Laws - because we know gravity is not a force. I love the fact there is absolute time, and absolute space - and that Einstein's E=mc^2 explains rest mass and relativistic mass explains the apparent dilation of time due to the conservation of momentum, as all vibrations and oscillations show down as mass increases. I love the fact there is no so-called Twins Paradox. Because Paradoxes are almost universally a problem with the language itself or a failure of logic.

  • @congchuatocmay4837
    @congchuatocmay4837 Жыл бұрын

    The moving object is emitting event information, else you could not know it is moving. And if space has an information transmission rate saturation limit the moving object is using some part of that and that may reduce the rate at which events occur (eg. slow time.) And like I said there are a lot of events happening in a proton per second as the quarks and gluons interact. And that uses up some of the saturation capacity, slowing the event rate (time) the way gravity is known to do. Then you could speculate that an electron must have interacting constituents to have mass.

  • @joeboxter3635
    @joeboxter36352 жыл бұрын

    Please explain what and how to covariantly extend SR!!!

  • @J7Handle
    @J7Handle8 ай бұрын

    I did just think about this, but assuming the idea of absolute acceleration is correct (which it can't be, I agree on that one), then we can create two new twin paradox scenarios. Scenario 1: Ship B leaves at velocity v and after Ship A experiences time elapsed t, Ship B abruptly halts relative to Ship A, and they both measure the distance between them to be d = v * t. Scenario 2: Ship B leaves at velocity v and after Ship A experiences time elapsed t, Ship A abruptly accelerates to match Ship B's velocity, and due to length contraction after acceleration (and the accompanying lack of length expansion that Ship B sees due to not decelerating in this scenario), both ships measure the distance between them to be d = v * t / gamma. When we remove the idea of absolute acceleration and prevent the ships from agreeing on who's accelerating, we suddenly lose the ability to account for why length contraction occurs in one scenario and length expansion occurs for the other. Of course, this is to be expected. If we have a paradox regarding the time of travel, we would naturally also have a paradox regarding the distance of travel, the two being inseparably linked. But it does raise the interesting point: If the twins are able to compare both the distance traveled and the time elapsed between each other, they can conclude which of them has absolutely accelerated and which of them hasn't, but we're not supposed to be able to conclude absolute acceleration. Why am I so adamant that absolute acceleration cannot be? Because in our expanding universe, every object simultaneously observes the others to be accelerating away while also validly claiming they themselves are not accelerating. Thus, acceleration due to the expansion of the universe must be relative due to the irreconcilable disagreements. The only other possible conclusion is that acceleration due to expansion of the universe is not acceleration at all despite working exactly like regular acceleration in every way except for the inability to reconcile disagreements on absolute motion. Which according the the principle of relativity, shouldn't be a problem.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    8 ай бұрын

    That's an excellent point about relative acceleration and the expanding universe!

  • @J7Handle

    @J7Handle

    8 ай бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy recently, my views on this subject have been changing rapidly. Your video on how time dilation is actually an illusion caused by how we measure time made me think that there could actually be an aether without us ever being able to verify its presence (except if we found a new force that propagates faster than light). And if time dilation and length contraction are both illusions that don't actually happen, then spacetime is also an illusion, as spacetime is the concept that ties together time dilation and length contraction. With those being illusions, the spacetime idea becomes pointless. Which also defeats the idea of gravity being curvature in spacetime. With this revelation, the twin paradox in curved spacetime loses its mystique, as the acceleration due to gravity ends up exactly equivalent to normal acceleration. Thus solution to the twin paradox remains: acceleration. But in order to accept absolute acceleration, I've been forced to seriously consider that the aether really does exist. In a twin paradox scenario with an empty universe save for the two twins, and an undetectable gravitational field causes a twin to undergo an undetectable acceleration at the turnaround point, the twins can no longer determine who will experience more time based on their absolute acceleration (they can't decide who was the one who accelerated). They can only determine their absolute acceleration from their experience of time instead. But absolute acceleration relative to what? They didn't feel the acceleration and didn't observe any influence that could cause the acceleration. They are simply forced to accept that one of them had an acceleration relative to something. In another scenario with a closed universe, they push off each other and eventually reunite due to the circularity of the universe. If their time elapsed are different, they're forced to assume that one of them ended up with a higher velocity than the other. If they experience the same elapsed time, they assume they had the same velocity as each other. If you think its natural that both the starting velocity be zero and the resultant velocities be equal and opposite, think again. If they start with zero velocity and one twin is heavier than the other, their resultant velocities when they push off will not be equal and opposite. Meaning its impossible to guarantee that in every scenario they will experience the same amount of time, and the only source of asymmetry that makes sense for that is aether. The aether is the thing that they measure their velocities against. Even if they can't measure the aether wind directly, they measure it when they meet on the other side of the universe and compare clocks. So the aether exists, and acceleration and velocity are absolute (kind of).

  • @J7Handle

    @J7Handle

    7 ай бұрын

    @@nadirceliloglu397 While time dilation and length contraction are real, acceleration cannot be relative. Under any circumstances. I've found that an assumption of relative acceleration in any circumstances always yields an impossible twins paradox. Thus, there cannot be relative acceleration. But if there's no relative acceleration, then the equivalence principle is wrong, space doesn't expand, there is a center of the universe (just near impossible to find), there's nothing beyond the edge of the observable universe (edge is a wrong word choice anyways, there's no restriction on how far away something in our observable universe can be from us except the amount of time it would take to get there), therefore the observable universe is the same as the whole universe, time is absolute, length is absolute, velocity is therefore absolute, and because of the expansion of the universe (not space, but the universe itself expands, as in, the things in it accelerate away from the center), position is also absolute. So no motion is relative. The solution to the twins paradox makes all motion absolute, decidable only by observing the rest of the universe and not by "feeling" it locally. The speed of light is also not constant. Gravity is just a region of space with a reduced speed of light, which just like a prism, refracts light, and because matter is made of waves, these are also attracted by gravitational fields.

  • @J7Handle

    @J7Handle

    7 ай бұрын

    @@nadirceliloglu397 All experiments that have been claimed to prove relativity have only proved the Lorentz equations. The assumption of relative motion has always been just that: an assumption. Nothing has ever proven it. And the twins paradox proves it wrong. Acceleration is absolute, and everything else I said follows from that.

  • @kingnovak2831
    @kingnovak28313 жыл бұрын

    Man, why does reality have to make everything so complicated?

  • @RecursionIs

    @RecursionIs

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is an exercise in exceptions

  • @cisuminocisumino3250

    @cisuminocisumino3250

    Жыл бұрын

    Or maybe we're the ones making reality complicated.

  • @Jaggerbush

    @Jaggerbush

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cisuminocisumino3250 no - it’s complicated. That’s the point. If you think you can watch a KZread video and understand it- then you don’t understand it.

  • @2tehnik

    @2tehnik

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jaggerbush I think they were more so making a point about how our theories are incomplete or don't actually map onto the world.

  • @dritemolawzbks8574

    @dritemolawzbks8574

    Жыл бұрын

    "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." -NDT (America's favorite celebrity astrophysicist)

  • @mikkel715
    @mikkel7152 жыл бұрын

    If the one way speed of light is individual for direction. Will the Time Dilation be going up or down depending of direction compared to the Cosmic Background Radiation? And so needed to define a lowest possible time dilation...?

  • @mikkel715

    @mikkel715

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@narfwhals7843 Can you explain how Time Dilation shouldn't be per direction, if one way speed of light, changes per direction velocity relative to a reference frame with equal one ways light speeds in all directions. (For info, I'm not talking about a universal rest frame, at least not across the universe)

  • @PulseCodeMusic
    @PulseCodeMusic Жыл бұрын

    Accelerating reference frames have a slower passage of time than inertial ones. You can come to this conclusion quite easily by measuring the the length of ticks of photon clock oriented in the direction of acceleration (or paths of photons in an accelerating photon box). Call that a fake gravitational field if you want, but there is an equivalence between acceleration and staying still in a gravitational field, so why would you choose the one that is clearly not the actual reality of the situation.

  • @hemantjakhar8497
    @hemantjakhar84972 жыл бұрын

    Sir I have one more doubt... What about length of objects when seen from different frames... I mean will length of objects on earth for person in moving spacecraft will appear shorter or longer

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    For the constant velocity segments of the trip, each twin will see the other having a shorter length space-craft. At the turn around, if we can "objectively" say one twin is accelerating and not the other, than the accelerating twin will observe the inertial twin's clocks speed up and their lengths dilate, while the inertial twin will continue to observe the accelerating twin as having a shorter spacecraft.

  • @hosh1313
    @hosh1313 Жыл бұрын

    6:25 3 legs of the journey? What about the initial acceleration and final deceleration?

  • @GumbyTheGreen1
    @GumbyTheGreen12 жыл бұрын

    Maybe force itself isn't the agent of asymmetry - at least not directly. But it seems likely that force at least causes something to happen (like a rotation of an object's direction through time or something weird like that) that is the actual agent of asymmetry. Would you agree?

  • @rathereasy
    @rathereasy2 жыл бұрын

    How's this for an explanation of the asymmetry: length contraction. Alice and Bob disagree about the distance that the other person traveled. If we take bob's frame as inertial, he thinks Alice travelled less far. They both agree on the speeds, but Bob's observes the distances to be shorter regardless of which frame is inertial.

  • @Paul_Walker
    @Paul_Walker3 жыл бұрын

    Hey cannu please explain me my doubt... I beg you pls coz I'm really confused nd I can't sleep without knowing it... So let me start .. Suppose A is the guy which is at earth nd B is the guy which is constantly moving in space at speed 0.5 c... So B comes at earth without stopping nd moving constantly, B crosses Earth and as soon he does it, both A & B starts a stopwatch... B then travel to a star ( remember he was constantly moving always )... The star is 4 Ly away nd as he's moving at 0.5 c, so the A knows he'll reach the star in 8 years... But when B reaches the star (it didn't stop), he stops the stopwatch nd shows a big sign of the clock to C which is near the star... C shows the sign ( suppose he saw that B showed 7 years nd he notes it) Now C comes to earth nd tells A that "by the time B reached the star, he showed that it took 7 years"... But A had calculated already that it must've taken 8 years for him(A) by the time B reached the star... So time took for B to reach the star is 7 yrs nd at that time A/ earth has passed 8 yrs... But NONE of them accelerated ever.... So B can say that he was at rest nd earth moved away from him nd stars/c came closer to him... So he's confused that why A isn't younger than him..... So isn't this make us think it's still a paradox??? Pls explain

  • @marek-kulczycki-8286
    @marek-kulczycki-8286 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @adoion2421
    @adoion24213 жыл бұрын

    Post the next video man this is great, please. Of course spacetime is curved at the region of acceleration, acceleration applies an energy density and that curves spacetime. And one more thing, both twins need to agree how old they are after the trip even though the may be blind. Space twin may be in a coke can with no windows when he starts feeling a force from the floor of the rocket and then it will look like he is in uniform gravity field, that's what the equivalence principle says. The source of the gravity is, if space twin knows it or not, the burning fuel of the rocket or whatever accelerates it. So causality goes like, 1. Fuel Burns, 2. Coke can accelerates, 3. Spacetime is locally curved, 4. This should account for the twin being younger.

  • @MrCmon113

    @MrCmon113

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I've spent some days procrastinating on this issue and the clearest account I can come up with is that the rockets thrust one twin into the future.

  • @user-qd2nd6hi8j
    @user-qd2nd6hi8j Жыл бұрын

    Questions: 1) In a gravitational field, time flows more slowly. In the Twins paradox: dT`=dT*gamma. Why dT doesn`t changes in "accelerated field"? 2)2 frame of reference: a)gain of mass by you, b)gain of mass by Universe(except you). Curvature of space that makes accelerated whale is bigger than curvature of space by mosquito, therefore time dilations are different(but I saw a video showing symmetrical lines of space-time diagrams for twins) And "Oh boi, hold my beer" 3) Acceleration, increase in mass, the rate of change of the wave function of the object changes (the wave function depends on the energy/mass of the system). And in fact, the change in the wave function is time itself. So, Is there a solution to the twin paradox in terms of quantum mechanics?

  • @elio7610
    @elio7610 Жыл бұрын

    I don't see how the explanation given here is any more clear than everyone else's explanations.

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard Жыл бұрын

    The explanation also assumes a straight line out, a turn around (where the paradox-solving magic happens), and a return. What if one twin just travelling in a HUGE circle, constantly accelerating, until they rejoin their twin? There's no turn around point. And each travelled in a huge constant-acceleration circle from the others perspective.

  • @isbestlizard

    @isbestlizard

    Жыл бұрын

    Or maybe a parabola or orbit or whatever, but a continuous acceleration for the entire trip such that it starts and ends at the same point

  • @SpokoSpoko
    @SpokoSpoko2 жыл бұрын

    What about if we have three siblings instead of twins? One stay on Earth and the other two travel opposite directions. If both of those who are in the rockets can claim that after passing return point they are stationary and Earth started to accelerate toward them, which direction is Earth actually moving? Right or left. Or maybe the space between the three objects starts to shrink?

  • @alansewell7810
    @alansewell78103 жыл бұрын

    The idea, expressed in this video, is that the non-relativistic motion of the Earth and stars relative to each other determine that the twin in the fast-moving rocket is the one who moves at relativistic speeds relative to the rest of the Universe and therefore ages slowly, while the one who remains on Earth is non-relativistic and ages at normal speed. This is known as "Mach's Principle" after Ernst Mach of sound barrier fame. Mach lived contemporaneously with Einstein, and Einstein studied his work. Mach's idea, restated, is that relative to lightspeed, the bulk of the visible Universe is essentially at rest. Therefore, any object of mass near lightspeed is the exceptional object relative to the rest of the Universe and therefore is assigned the time dilation, whether it accelerates, changes direction, or remains in an inertial frame of constant velocity. I was assured in the comments with a physicist that the "Mach's Principle" is incorrect, even though it seems logical.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're correct that Mach's Principle is highly relevant to the topics presented in this video. Einstein was a firm believer in Mach's Principle; upon one occasion he numbered it among the foundational pinnacles of General Relativity. However, there is much dispute over what exactly is the meaning of Mach's Principle, and the different ways it could be interpreted and defined might lead one to saying that it is either "correct" or "incorrect". We have eschewed treating it in our videos up to this point because of this ambiguity, but certainly it seems like a subject worthy of deeper examination.

  • @robertmadeo7672

    @robertmadeo7672

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy Clearly, There is only one solution to the twin paradox. Your video outlines that solution. Mach and Einstein would have to be in complete agreement with you. Therefore, I would suggest that Einsteins' understanding of the English language and his translator's understanding of German have somehow muddled things. My understanding of Mach is that he always thought absolute space was impossible. Now, I am not sure this was really his viewpoint. Perhaps he only wanted to limit absolute space to a local star matrix (a billion light-years more or less.) Beyond this scale of interactions, other forces may become noticeable. Neither he nor Einstein have ever adequately explained these forces that create inertia. My understanding of the twin paradox would be explained as follows: Two assumptions are necessary: 1) light moves at a constant speed, 2) all communication between atomic particles requires the transmission of light. Now, a simple thought experiment can be performed. Imagine you are 8 light minutes away from earth. You take a picture of yourself using a camera with a flash function. As the flash occurs, you now ride one of the photons towards the earth (of course this would be physically impossible but this doesn't matter for our thought experiment.) It is you that is moving at the speed of light. All relatively stationary observers in your star matrix would agree that it is you that is moving at the speed of light. Observers on the earth will have to wait 8 minutes before seeing you, your camera, and your photograph. But what about you? Well, the atoms in your body, including your brain will arrive on earth at the same time as the photo. For you, time will have stopped during your journey. All electromagnetic communication energies of your atoms and molecules will be moving in the same direction that the photon is moving. Perhaps, if possible, you would instantaneously exist as a collection of photons. (I doubt everything can be reduced to photons.) However, in the real world, you could only approach the speed of light. As you approach light speed your mass would increase towards infinity and you may begin to drag your local star matrix behind you! I'm sure the intergalactic police (men in black?) would frown on your journey.

  • @alansewell7810

    @alansewell7810

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robertmadeo7672 Mass does not increase to infinity as you approach light speed, because an object's gravitational field is constant regardless of its velocity. Also bear in mind that if mass were relativistic, if you increased velocity, the rest of the University would increase velocity relative to you, and you would perceive bizarre gravitational effects from the Universe at large. Because gravity cannot vary, neither can mass. Each object has one and only one rest mass, regardless of its speed. What is changing is momentum; i.e. you are cutting through gamma-magnified lengths of space as your speed approaches light, so your momentum, not your mass changes. On to the main point: he breaking of the symmetry in the twins paradox is the absolute speed of each party. The party that sees the Universe thinner is the one whose time is running slower. I.e. if you're travelling at 87% light speed, the Universe appears half as thick, so it is your time that is running twice as slow as the non-relativistic objects. I believe Mach was correct (there are many interpretations of his informal theories) and that there is an absolute frame of reference relative to the bulk of the Universe.

  • @robertmadeo7672

    @robertmadeo7672

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alansewell7810 Way back in the dinosaur age when I first took physics, we identified relative mass (gamma)(m) or gamma time the rest-mass. It was explained that the particle or person or rocket would become too massive (fat?) to be accelerated to the speed of light. Anyway, even if relative mass exists, the object would probably be moving so fast that it wouldn't have time to attract anything. Also, relative mass, if it exists, probably doesn't have the same features as rest mass.

  • @alansewell7810

    @alansewell7810

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robertmadeo7672 I learned it that way too. The difference between mass and momentum in regard to relativity was not differentiated in those days. Don Lincoln, the head physicist at Fermi Lab, has a video called IS RELATIVISTIC MASS REAL? that explains the current thinking, which is that mass is constant, and momentum = gamma * mass * velocity.

  • @markcollinscope
    @markcollinscope9 ай бұрын

    I have a slightly lateral question here. Where did the Twins Paradox come from; how was it initially conceived. At a guess (humour) it wasn't from experimental evidence at the time. So it must have been a theoretical 'observation' (i.e. it was calculated mathematically using SR). So if we want to explain the Twins Paradox, shouldn't we go back to the original calculation(s)? I may have missed something here - feel free to enlighten me. If not, anyone seen the 'original calculation' (assuming that exists).

  • @stewiesaidthat

    @stewiesaidthat

    8 ай бұрын

    The paradox arose from Einstein combining space and time into one entity. Coupled that with not understanding that mechanical clocks measure motion in space leads to a convoluted fantasy universe where Force does not equal Acceleration. A slower running clock just means that it is experiencing more space (distance). How is thus determined? Because clocks in motion use the same amount of energy as stationary clocks. Where does the energy come from to accelerate cell growth? For egg embryos- the mother hen. Is it constant? No. Seed germination rates are dependent on soil temperature. Is that value constant? No as it changes with energy received from the sun/artificial means. Go back in time and look at who started all this relativity/time-dilation nonsense. A guy who knew nothing about the universe and made everything up in his head with his 'thought' experiments.

  • @lifequake
    @lifequake3 жыл бұрын

    The symmetry is broken by the behavior of light for the two twins. Suppose the twin in the rocket has a laser beam pointing from the floor to the ceiling. When the twin in the rocket sees the earth accelerate back toward him, the laser beam will appear to curve. This twin can make one of two interpretations. He can retain the idea that light always moves in a straight path in an inertial reference frame and conclude that he is not in an inertial reference frame. Of course, this means motion is not completely relative as you point out in the video. Alternatively, he can assert that he is at rest but then he must reject the idea that light always moves in a straight path in an inertial reference frame. However, to reject this idea is to reject the theory of special relativity, and thus he cannot use the theory to conclude that his twin will age more slowly than him. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think there is a paradox only if we want to say that all motion is relative (including acceleration) and that the laws of physics are the same for all observers. As long as we say only that the laws of physics for the same for all observers moving at a constant velocity relative to each other, we will avoid contradictions. We can then say that our accepted laws of physics hold only for frames of references where the laws have simplest form. This is actually a way of defining an inertial reference frame without referring to constant velocity versus acceleration.

  • @finbarcurtin6402

    @finbarcurtin6402

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's interesting because Eistein's solution would say that the light is curving in the inertial frame of reference because of the presence of a gravitational field. But, as the video argues, that's an insufficient answer.

  • @lifequake

    @lifequake

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@finbarcurtin6402 I don't think light appears curved within an inertial reference frame (excluding the effects of electromagnetic forces). If you are in freefall in gravitational field with a beam of light, the light should appear straight to you (according to GR). Otherwise, you'd be able to tell whether you were in freefall as opposed to floating in empty space. If the twin wants to claim that gravity is causing the light to appear bent, then he would need to conclude that he is resisting freefall by accelerating (in the same sense that everyone on earth is accelerating upward through curved spacetime rather than freefalling toward its center). If the twin wants to assert that he is at rest, I don't think he has any other option then to come up with an alternative theory of light based on the idea that light travels in a curved path when observed within an inertial reference frame. This new theory would have its own version of the Lorentz transformations, and I expect those new transformations would make the same prediction as the twin on earth, that the twin on earth is older. Thus, no paradox. Different observations about who is moving combine with different laws about time dilation to result in the same conclusion about who is older.

  • @corwin-7365

    @corwin-7365

    3 жыл бұрын

    The second viewpoint is General Relativity. Ie, all frames are relative but they differ in the amount that light bends.

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын

    I feel the (relative) explanation here given by Einstein is one of perspectives and making them mutually agree, however the actual measurability of differences in clocks at earth (where the *actual* gravity is) is metaphysically ontological (as it is not merely a perspective, but actually measurable). So operationalism (which deals with observables) actually agrees with actual time dilation at earth compared to the experience of the pilot flying away, even though they are obviously mutually inclusive / in agreement as this logically necessarily must per the law of non-contradiction As an underlying argument for this: time in flat spacetime is constant with lightspeed, so it cannot actually move faster than in flat spacetime as would be the case according to you from the viewpoint from the pilot looking at the time elapsing at earth: it would exceed the lightspeed logic of time, which is the natural limit of reality

  • @Swiffah145
    @Swiffah1452 жыл бұрын

    The objective (i.e. coordinate-independent) difference between the two twins is the spacetime interval traversed by their trajectories: The interval traversed by the traveling’s twin is shorter than the remaining twin. The spacetime interval is a (arguably *the*) fundamental property of the underlying (Minkowski) spacetime. And special relativity employs this property in explaining the age difference, namely via clock postulate. This postulate says that the readings on a clock is proportional to the spacetime interval traversed by its trajectory. The clock postulate is not often mentioned as a fundamental postulate of SR, but it really should be - it’s essential to linking the properties of spacetime to observable phenomena. Note how the above explanation does not mention “acceleration” or “coordinate system” or anything else.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    We discuss some of these aspects in our video on the twin paradox in curved spacetime. While comparison of spacetime intervals does absolve the asymmetry of the paradox from being solely correlated to a notion of absolute acceleration, the fact still remains that in flat spacetime, shortening the spacetime distance between two spacetime events requires an act of acceleration, which, in the context of SR, is still defined relationally via the 3-acceleration of an accelerometer instrument.

  • @Xidnaf
    @Xidnaf Жыл бұрын

    Wow. I thought I understood the twin paradox. I did not understand the twin paradox.

  • @wafikiri_
    @wafikiri_ Жыл бұрын

    The usual concept of motion, for reasons of analytic convenience in most situations, is that of a changing position of an object as observed from another object called frame of reference. But, when I was entering my teens, as I was analysing some classic paradoxes about motion, I came to another, equivalent concept: there is motion when the distance between two objects changes. According to the latter concept, no frame of reference is needed but at least two objects (e.g., two points) are. The twins paradox is a tale of a distance that first increases from zero, then decreases to zero, and none of the distance ends has any superior quality over the other. Therefore, both of the twins' clocks will agree and they will show no age difference.

  • @wafikiri_

    @wafikiri_

    Жыл бұрын

    While my above reasoning is valid without gravity, it is not when both distance ends are subject to different gravitational influence, which affects clocks as seen from each opposite end. However, just acceleration, or rate of change of distance, affects both ends equally and should, thus, be not considered.

  • @DanielGrubbs1
    @DanielGrubbs12 жыл бұрын

    At 6:01 you say "Now, because clocks run faster farther out in gravitational fields, distant objects will appear to age very rapidly from his perspective." But I don't think this is true in this case. With this "uniform gravitational field" both of the rockets will experience the same effects with neither clock running faster or slower due to general relativistic effects. There will be a Doppler shift and special relativistic effects, but no gravitational difference. Most sources of a gravitational field come from a particular source with field lines closer together nearer the source. I believe that this is why clocks run slower nearer to the source. I know this doesn't affect your thesis as you go on to show this explanation is wrong, but I thought I should comment on it. If I'm incorrect, lease tell me why. Thanks.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Real" gravity, i.e., spacetime curvature, must stem from a source. A uniform gravitational field is not real curvature and not real gravity, but rather a "pseudo-field" that is a consequence of inhabiting an accelerating frame. So you are correct to assert that there is no gravitational difference in a uniform field, and the effects of time dilation there are all due to special relativistic phenomena. A rather startling fact: time dilation and curvature (gravity) have nothing to do with each other. Several videos out there on KZread perpetuate the misconception that they are related, which they are not. You can have a theory of gravitational curvature (Newton-Cartan physics) without any time dilation whatsoever. Clocks run slower nearer to a source because the observers near to that source are in accelerating frames of reference. Thus, due to kinematical effects from special relativity, they "see" clocks farther out running faster than their own.

  • @jeremy4ags
    @jeremy4ags Жыл бұрын

    If I can press a button and instantly observe a far away object move towards me, isn’t that “gravity” faster than light? Wouldn’t that break symmetry already?

  • @user-lb8qx8yl8k
    @user-lb8qx8yl8k Жыл бұрын

    I honestly thought my understanding of basic special relativity was flawless ... until I saw this video. Damn!!

  • @hemagicmp2773
    @hemagicmp27732 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the video....I've been stuck on this paradox for years and everyone seems to be so sure they have the answer but everyone of them is different lol...

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! Everyone has different answers because no one really understands the problem very well 🤷

  • @joeo3377

    @joeo3377

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy I suspect that everyone has the same answer, but they just have different ways of communicating it. We all agree that the space-time path of the twin who does not stay on Earth is the cause of the age difference, and that to achieve that path, there must be acceleration. It's just a question of how to explain that while also (1) discussing the important features and (2) remaining accessible to people who haven't taken a course in physics. Different people have different approaches to satisfying that. It doesn't make them wrong. Let's be honest, it's a problem that's over 100 years old with a solution that's not difficult if you've studied the material. Do you really think that everybody else has it wrong?

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joeo3377 You can watch several of the most popular videos on KZread and discover flaws in each. The Ted-Ed Amber Stuver video, despite the obvious professional level of time and money that went into the video, makes the rookie mistake of conflating time dilation with the Doppler effect - a horrifying thing to consider when you realize it has almost four million views! A large number of even professional physicists confuse many of basic tenets of relativity, so yes, the problem is not well understood. The philosophy and paradoxes of motion have been debated for over two millennia. Do you really think they were solved in one fell swoop by special relativity? Not even Einstein thought so. The current models are incomplete and offer no mechanism by which to determine or define absolute acceleration. It may not be the most pressing epistemological issues facing physics, but it’s certainly there.

  • @joeo3377

    @joeo3377

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy I suggest that you rewatch the Ted-Ed Amber Stuver video, because it does not conflate time dilation with the Doppler effect. It's not something I had watched before, so I just watched it now. The video does make use of the Doppler effect to explain what the twins observe, and does so accurately, but it does not state that the Doppler effect is responsible for time dilation. When you talk about the philosophy and paradoxes of motion being debated for over two millennia, I assume you are talking about Zeno's paradoxes. To answer your question, no I don't believe that Zeno's paradoxes were solved in one fell swoop by relativity. Quite the contrary, I believe Zeno's paradoxes were solved centuries earlier, with the advent of calculus and a rigorous understanding of limits. But even after Zeno's paradoxes were resolved, there were certainly questions that remained about motion. Newton had in his mind an idea of "absolute" motion-motion relative to the "fixed stars"-which was in some ways an answer to the question of Galilean relativity. But we now know that there is no such concept, and that all inertial frames have just as much claim to be "at rest". Coming back to your question about "absolute acceleration", I direct you the the Ted-Ed Amber Stuver video, which very succinctly states: "But when Stella changed direction for her return journey, she entered a different reference frame from the one she started in". There is an objective difference between the two frames of reference for the outward and inbound trips. Because inertial frames are relative, differences between frames are objective. If I measure two objects to be in relative motion (for example, a person walking on a train is in relative motion with the train), then every other observer will also measure those two objects to be in relative motion (although different observers might find the different velocities to be different because relativistic velocity is not strictly additive). But, because we can all agree that different reference frames are in fact different, we can all agree that the Earth-bound twin remains in one reference frame, while the space-bound twin occupies two different reference frames. The only way for this to happen is for the space-bound twin to change reference frames at some point in their journey. We can define this as acceleration.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@joeo3377 We suggest you rewatch the Ted-Ed video more closely, particularly around the 4:45 mark. There is a misleading statement made there. If you cannot figure what is incorrect about it, let us know, we can happily explain it to you. We also suggest you watch our other videos, particularly "Do Inertial Frames Resolve the Twin Paradox" if you think we are somehow not aware of the equally problematic idea of defining acceleration through the "changing frames" idea. (Short version: it's circular, since an inertial frame has to be defined through the absence of acceleration.) We've had some of these videos up for two years, and nobody has yet to present a definition of "absolute acceleration" that somehow transcends the relative construct of measurement. (But good luck if you'd like to try.) Ultimately we refer you to our Einstein quote from this video, in which he asserts that, to the consistently-thinking man, the idea of absolute motion makes no sense. So maybe try thinking consistently.

  • @hannutiihonen9175
    @hannutiihonen91753 жыл бұрын

    I hope my question is not too much off-topic. I have not read many articles (in fact only one), where the travelling twin tries to measure simultaneity this way: He sends a message to the earth at time t1 and then the earth twin sends a message back immediately where he tells what time the earth clock showed. The travelling twin gets the answer at time t2. Then he calculates: (t1+t2)/2 should be simultaneous to the time which earth twin told in the message. All these events during the outbound trip. Is this method generally accepted? It gives results which fit to the dime dilation which travelling twin gets using Lorentz factor. Travelling twin thinks that earth twin ages slower in the beginning of the journey. (The situation changes, if the travelling twin gets the answer during inbound trip. But my question is only about the outbound trip). This method seems so simple, almost too simple... For example: Speed 0.6c. Lorentz factor 1.25. Travelling twin sends a message when his clock shows time "one year". Earth twin gets it when earth clock shows time "two years" and sends a message containing this information immediately back. Travelling twin gets it when the spacecraft clock shows "four years". And he calculates (1+4)/2 = 2.5. His result is that spaceship's time 2.5 years is simultaneous with earth time 2 years. And it is the same result which you get using Lorentz factor. I draw a Minkowski-diagram (hope you can see it, there are a couple of finnish words also. Horizontal axis = lightyears, vertical = years). There are other similar messages drawn too. Dotted lines are calculated simultaneity lines 1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8R_3BDVVuk/X_xJ0hgUW6I/AAAAAAAAd_s/hcsojNQDV-sIpSTLhNCMKWygMesc0IJywCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Minkowski4.png

  • @hannutiihonen9175

    @hannutiihonen9175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@silverrahul Thankyou. But I have an article, where a well known Finnish professor of cosmology uses this method. The purpose of the article is to explain the twin paradox as simply as possible. It is in Finnish, so I dont give it here. And the method seems to work when you test it with examples. But I was asking this, because I don't understand why I can't find this method elsewhere. Maybe bad googling? (I googled a lot) It resembles "Einstein synchronisation" ( Wikipedia says that "Its principal value is for clocks within a single inertial frame.") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_synchronisation. And in my example it is used so, that the travelling twing supposes that he is stationary and earth is moving. Then, (by "normal" reasoning) you can think that light passes similar distance to both directions - first from spacecraft to earth and then from earth to spacecraft - because the message is sent IMMEDIATELY back. But I have become suspicious when I notice I am using "normal" reasoning when speaking about relativity... So I am hoping that somebody could give me more background information about this method, maybe a link to an example where it is used or something. I would be surprised, if it is totally wrong... ???!!!

  • @hannutiihonen9175

    @hannutiihonen9175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@silverrahul Well, maybe because of the relativity? You newer know how is really moving. And you can always think that the other is moving.

  • @hannutiihonen9175

    @hannutiihonen9175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@silverrahul I mean this: If you think that the earth is moving, the lenght of the trip which light signal travels to the point where it meets earth and then the other, back from that point of space to the spaceship is the same, even though distance to the earth is growing all the time, also after the moment when the light signal begins it's trip back.

  • @hannutiihonen9175

    @hannutiihonen9175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@silverrahul My problem is that I don't find that kind of explanation elsewhere. Why? I think it should be mentioned often, because it gives so handy and simple way to measure time dilation of earth twin, in the perspective of travelling twin. The link is here - but no images available. Maybe google translator can help :-) www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/enqvist/artikkeli.dir/kaksos.html

  • @hannutiihonen9175

    @hannutiihonen9175

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I used the Lorentz formula backwads. But If I was the travelling twin, I don't need it. I know when I sent it (year one, spacecraft time) and when I got the answer (year four, spaceraft time). And if if there is information included in the answer: "I got your message when earth clock showed two years" it would be enough to calculate the simultaneity in a very simple way. This brings concreteness. The spacecraft twin has a "measurement" about the time dilation, not only formulae and theory. This answers me the question "Is the time dilation reciprocal REALLY". Yes it is in a way, at least you can measure it (I don't say more) But then, using same method, when beginning to return, the spacecraft twin notices that earth clock has gone much faster. The Earth clock takes even bigger lead than the result is. But then again, when the travelling twin sends more messages during the inbound trip, he notices, that earth clock goes slower, the lead diminishes a bit. Sum of all this is anyway, that earth twin is older. Now I have explained you the article, which I mentioned. BUT as I said, I am wondering, why this way to explain what happens, is so hard to find in the internet. It nags me. 1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8R_3BDVVuk/X_xJ0hgUW6I/AAAAAAAAd_s/hcsojNQDV-sIpSTLhNCMKWygMesc0IJywCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Minkowski4.png

  • @bhekigin
    @bhekigin Жыл бұрын

    An accelarating Mass induces a gravitational field (waves) and visa versa i.e gravitational waves induces acceralation of mass (objects). This means movement from rest a gravitational fuction and all kinetic energy draw from gravitational wave energy. Force is a gravitational wave potential difference.

  • @markpmar0356
    @markpmar0356 Жыл бұрын

    Would it be impertinent to suggest that the alleged equivalence of the frames in the experiment is actually false?

  • @abhilashassariparambilraja2534
    @abhilashassariparambilraja2534 Жыл бұрын

    Sir🙏, what about Grand father paradox, please 🙏 give us a clarification 🙏

  • @TomTom-rh5gk
    @TomTom-rh5gk2 жыл бұрын

    I get now. I don't think you brought up gravitation in the same way in the other video, I have a lot more thinking to do. I know I have learned a lot.

  • @TomTom-rh5gk

    @TomTom-rh5gk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@schmetterling4477 You are right. The video is great at attacking others but says nothing about gravity.

  • @TomTom-rh5gk

    @TomTom-rh5gk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@schmetterling4477 Einstein said no one understands it because he couldn't understand it. Like the quantum theory the math works but it makes no sense to the human mind.

  • @TomTom-rh5gk

    @TomTom-rh5gk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@schmetterling4477 "Anyone who claims to understand quantum theory is either lying or crazy," said physicist Richard Feynman The same is true of relativity that is why their are so many crappy videos on relativity that are praised like Emperor's New Clothes.

  • @TomTom-rh5gk

    @TomTom-rh5gk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@schmetterling4477 You do not have a clue and you will laugh of any evidence I bring. Everyone who knows about quantum theory knows that it is weird. If you knew anything about it would be the leading physicist in the world. More people would know about you then knew of Hawking or Einstein.

  • @pedrokrause7553
    @pedrokrause75533 жыл бұрын

    Hey Dialect! What do you think about TED-Ed explanation?

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great question. Sadly, despite being a highly-viewed video backed by an accredited institution, the TED-Ed video actually makes the very basic error of conflating time dilation with the doppler effect. Around the 4:45 mark, the video claims that Terra observes Stella aging slowly for 90% of the trip, and then observes her aging quickly the rest of the time. This is VERY incorrect. Terra observes Stella aging slowly the entire duration of the trip. The frequency of Terra's light-messages will be lessened (blue-shifted) during that 90% of the trip because of Doppler effects, however, Terra still has to account for the amount of time taken by the light from Stella to reach her. Terra will know exactly how far away Stella is when each light message was sent, since the message will presumably contain information about where in space Stella was at the moment the message was sent, and therefore Terra can calculate backwards, via her knowledge of the speed of light, how much time actually elapsed between two ticks in Stella's clocks. Doing this, it will be apparent that, from Terra's view, Stella's clocks run consistently slow throughout the entire duration of the trip. An easier way to think about it is that Terra could have a group of assistants, all positioned throughout different points of space along Stella's path, and all at rest with respect to Terra, who measure the rate of Stella's clocks as she passes by them. Later these assistants could all compare notes and everyone would see that Stella's clocks were, from the frame of Terra's perspective, running slow the entire duration of her journey. There's actually studies out there that show a large number of professional physicists don't understand the difference between the Doppler effect and time dilation -- demonstrating that relativity is a difficult topic, even for those who profess to teach it!

  • @pedrokrause7553

    @pedrokrause7553

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@dialectphilosophy I believe the video was valid solution to "Who is the older one when both meet again?", but it is true that the video might have conflated time dilation and the doppler effect. But I also think that the video focuses on how Stella and Terra would see each other's aging process, in the original meaning of the word, which is by receiving light - and in that sense the video is correct.

  • @pedrokrause7553

    @pedrokrause7553

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy And it is certainly true that there's a lot of professionals that don't actually know the subject, which is very unfortunate.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@pedrokrause7553 With regards to the question of what breaks the symmetry of the paradox, the Ted-Ed video does at least state that what defines Stella's non-inertial frame is her acceleration with respect to the rest of the universe. This is a step above other videos, whose conceptualizations of non-inertial frames are woefully under-defined. However, the video does not get the aging process correct at all. This is due to, as we explained above, the misconception regarding the doppler effect, as well as the fact that multiple meanings of the term "seeing" and "observing" are being thrown around. When we receive light from the very distant universe, we know that what we are "seeing" happened a very long time ago, not at that very instant. Likewise, Terra should know that the light she receives from Stella represents a picture of an event whose occurrence must be ordered and placed in the past, yet the Ted-Ed video falsely implies that the frequency in which Terra receives Stella's messages corresponds to the time intervals on Stella's clock. If this were the case, then Terra would also see Stella traveling the entire return trip distance in a very very brief time, thereby implying that Stella was traveling FASTER than the speed of light! The important take away is that Terra observes Stella's clocks running slow the entire trip, and likewise Stella with Terra. The discrepancies in clock speeds occurs only at the turn-around.

  • @jan_kisan
    @jan_kisan Жыл бұрын

    and what if there are three twins, one staying on the Earth and the other two going opposite directions and then returning? would the travellers age at the same rate? and consequently, if there are only two twins but they both travel opposite directions with same speeds and accelerations, would they be of the same age upon return?

  • @er-klartmathnat794

    @er-klartmathnat794

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @FallenStarFeatures
    @FallenStarFeatures Жыл бұрын

    @10:21 - "The arising of the gravitational field is even more problematic, however, because from the space twin's perspective, it appears in a non-local instantaneous fashion throughout all of space." This insight alone debunks the assumption of relativity between the perspectives of the two twins. In order to regard the space twin's perspective as an inertial frame of reference, you have to postulate a gravitational field that propagates instantaneously throughout all of space. This obviously violates relativistic limitations of propagation through space-time, as well as conflicting with recent observations of gravitational fields propagating at the speed of light.

  • @alchemy1
    @alchemy1 Жыл бұрын

    [First thing first; what does the term relativity mean in the first place? It means if I am going close to speed of light, you are going close to speed of light. That is what it means.] The problem with this whole relativity thing is as deep as it is wide as they say. Relativity says the following and see if you catch what is wrong here: 1. A stationary object moves in time only. 2. A moving object trades some of that time to move in space. So he moves less in time. 3. In empty space you can never know if you are moving or stationary in the first place. 4. Given two frames (two objects), neither can tell who is moving and who is not. Both see the other moving and it is stationary. 5. There is no absolute frames, meaning there are no stationary objecst in the universe in the first place. 6. In relativistic speed objects are not considered solid. All parts of the objects are all responding at different interval of time. Like traffic jam on the highway. The front car moves and it transfers slowely until the very back car moves, also when the front car stop until the back car stops. It does't happen at the same time. i.e. an object is a frame in motion... that is where the term frame comes from. Put all that together and in your mind's eye see if you can tell what is going on. It is a mess ======================================================================= 1. Forget the Earth and some other planet distraction. You have two objects in empty space. If the distance between the two does not change, it means two things. A. Both moving in the same direction with the same speed. B. They are both stationary. So this means both situations are the same. So neither can tell if they are stationary or if they are moving. Because it could be either one of the two situation. 2. If the two objects distance increase, each object sees itself stationay and the other moving away. If their distance decrease, each sees itself stationary and the other moving towards it. IN OTHER WORDS EACH SEES THE OTHER HAVING TURNED AROUND. 3. The instant distance increase between the objects, that is acceleration. Each sees the other having accelerated away. Coordinate acceleration is relative. Proper acceleration, the force that an accelerating object undergoes is not relative. This does not have any outward effect. Outwardly it becomes coordinate acceleration. This means each can claim the other accelerated. [So-called proper acceleration, applied force on the object does not change its atomic resonant frequency aside from the fact that the measurement is objective, outward that is, which makes the whole thing relative and therefore symmetrical] ============================================================================================= Everything about relativity is a hypothesis, none of it has been proven. It is all a conjucture. The Satellite examples and the muons are not the letter of relativity. What they describe is something other. They don't reflect the actual relativity as taught and what it says in the first place. Muons also see Earth's time dilated, that is relativity. The satellite clock business is not relative to some other clocks. The clocks,,, any and all of them are measured with respect to "at rest frame'", The center the core of the Earth. The core of the earth does not move. The satellites move round and around the center. It is not measured against other clocks. All clocks, the surface on Earth are also measured with respect to this at rest frame. The earth itself moves around this rest center. It is a local rest frame, the center of gravity. The solar system also have "at rest frame" too. It is called the Barycenter, center of mass/gravity of the solar system. This center is used to observe astronomical objects. ================================================================= It is not relativity as you might think.

  • @Rastlov
    @Rastlov Жыл бұрын

    Nice thoughts. But the traveling twin actually feels the acceleration. The twin on earth doesn’t feel any charges. That breaks the symmetry.

  • @dexter8705

    @dexter8705

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope you watch his newer videos cause he proves acceleration doesn't resolve or break the symetry.

  • @David-gu8hv
    @David-gu8hv Жыл бұрын

    "Because clocks run faster further out in a gravitational field..." is this true in a uniform gravitational field? Isn't that true for a gravitational body because it's gravity is weaker further out; if so wouldn't the clocks in a uniform gravitational field run at the same "rate"?

  • @dexter8705

    @dexter8705

    Жыл бұрын

    Nothing has a uniform gravitational field so your question is mute, but if there was one the answer would be yes, but the world or gravity doesn't work that way so why bring up a scenario with no relevance.

  • @imaginingPhysics
    @imaginingPhysics2 жыл бұрын

    7:46 side note: the "existence" of some kind of gravitomagnetic field is already implied by special relativity when gravity is developed into so called gravitoelectromagnetism (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitoelectromagnetism). Basically it is what you get when you combine Newtons inverse square law (compare Coulomb) with the finite speed of information - - > Maxwell type equations. It is quite inevitable that gravity has to have these kind of effects ("dragging" in this case), whatever their interpretation. And indeed gravitoelectromagnetism is equivalent (apart from a constant) to the linearized version of GR field equations.

  • @imaginingPhysics

    @imaginingPhysics

    2 жыл бұрын

    As to the "reality" of the induced gravitational field, I would like to compare it to the "reality" of an Electric field induced by changing magnetic field. Both can be seen as relativistic effects of accelerating bodies.

  • @imaginingPhysics

    @imaginingPhysics

    2 жыл бұрын

    9:29 I do not see why the analogy would break down. The accelerating observer in his rest frame sees distant stars accelerate --> their acceleration induces a changing gravitomagnetic field - - > changing gravitomagnetic field induces the gravitational field. (replace mass by charge and this Is classical electrodynamics). Now If Einstein went around to say that the induced gravitational field is responsible for the acceleration of the starts, that seems circular to me. You would not say such things about accelerating charges would you?

  • @imaginingPhysics

    @imaginingPhysics

    2 жыл бұрын

    To me all this is a beautiful demonstration of the equivalence principle in action. Laws of physics are the same and produce equivalent outcomes weather we are in an accelerating frame or non accelerating. Now, i do not want to pretend to understand relativity perfectly. These are my private ruminations. (the gravitoelectromagnetism is a real deal however)

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    2 жыл бұрын

    To answer some of your questions: yes, in his 1918 paper Einstein does actually assert that the induced gravitational field is responsible for accelerating the stars (shown at 10:01 in our video). But he also in the same paper implies the opposite (that first the stars accelerate) (10:09) so in fact it's a little unclear what exactly his interpretation was, and this is why we assert there is an "analogy breakdown". You could consider the universe as filled with a sort of static gravitomagnetic field that begins to change once the stars accelerate, thereby inducing a changing gravitational field. This still leaves the issue of non-local propagation of such changes; however, the main reason this theory has been dismissed among the current physics community is that in an empty universe, an accelerating rocket ship would still have to observe the arising of gravitational field, and its obvious such a field would have no source. The point of this video is indeed to demonstrate that the equivalence principles does NOT imply the equivalency of the laws of physics in non-accelerating vs accelerating frames. It only asserts the local equivalency of accelerating frames with frames-at-rest in a gravitational field. According to the theory of SR and GR, accelerating frames are privileged and can always be identified by all observers due to the unique form the laws of physics take in them. (Indeed, it is the observance of a gravitational field which always indicates true acceleration in GR.)

  • @imaginingPhysics

    @imaginingPhysics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the answer. Yeah the non local propagation seems dubious. So propably you and the scientific concensus are right. Also, The strength of the induced gravitational field would depend on the mass density of the universe, so in an empty universe the twins would always age the same (in this interpretation at least). And that last contradics GR, which does not care about distant stars (or does it?). Anyhow. The phenomenon/interpretation is still quite beautiful. Is it a pure coincidence or does contain "some truth" about the equivalence principle? I did not know einstein himself had seriously considered it. Enjoyed the video, thanks. Keep them coming.

  • @TheZorbeck
    @TheZorbeck2 жыл бұрын

    It is very interesting but I still have doubts, related to the equivallence principle, which seems to misbehave. The best way to express this is by a thought experiment. Imagine that the twin traveller travels with a constant acceleration, say 1 g, during the entire trip, or nearly so ( more on this soon), which after a few weeks will lead him to relativistic speeds and consequently with time dilation effects (with each twin claiming he is older as seen from his own reference frame, using the full blown relativity principle). This also means that there will be no difference on the forces acting on them for a very high proportion of the journey's duration. The only difference between the two situations will be, during a relatively short amount of time, an acceleration bigger than g to leave earth's gravitationnal field, later to decelerate (-g) and turn around (+g), and finally approaching earth, with the added event that twice during the entire trip the travelling twin will see up becoming down (once before return point, and another time when decelerating to earth, but we can stretch the experiment a bit by pretending it happened unnoticed during sleep to make the argument realistic :-). Now on what ground can one of the twin claim he is older ? To me the paradox is not solved yet. The only explanation that helps to resolve the paradox, as far as I can guess, relates to geodesics and proper time. But the equivallence principle raises questions...

  • @robertmadeo7672

    @robertmadeo7672

    2 жыл бұрын

    Think of a star matrix (one billion lightyears in diameter more or less.) Within this space/time frame we find the absolute speed of light. When an object is seen to move in this reference frame close to the speed of light, time dilation occurs. Relatively slow-moving stars and planets may be considered to be motionless. Time dilation only occurs for objects actually moving near the speed of light. The earth is always considered to be motionless. Also, as a spaceship approaches the actual speed of light, its mass approaches infinity. Look out! Here come the intergalactic police (men in black?) They don't like your massive spaceship dragging your star matrix behind it!

  • @tudortolciu1396
    @tudortolciu13963 жыл бұрын

    So basically, so called solutions of the Twin Paradox work in SR, because in SR acceleration is (correct me if I'm, wrong) absolute to spacetime and breaks the symmetry (basically one of the reasons Einstein was not happy with SR cause it didn't account for gravity). But in GR, the Twin Paradox remains a paradox. Right?

  • @tudortolciu1396

    @tudortolciu1396

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@silverrahul Ok so in GR, you have this "gravitational field" that breaks the symmetry, right.

  • @nemvus_

    @nemvus_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dialectphilosophy Great videos! Thank you so much for making them. I've been resisting this dogma for years because of its incoherence to me, and never got a proper answer from anyone. I'm happy you're making these videos. Excited to see your upcoming one.

  • @mikegale9757

    @mikegale9757

    3 жыл бұрын

    This discussion thread went a bit astray of the premise. The Earth's gravity is incidental because it's constant for the bystander and negligible for the traveller. Anyway, you can easily formulate the problem with no gravitating bodies. I presume you were thinking of Einstein's attempt to break the symmetry with his equivalence principle. I think it's fair to say that he failed in that endeavour, which is the point Dialect is making in this video. It should have been obvious though because GR is indistinguishable from SR in the absence of gravitating bodies.

  • @eliteteamkiller319
    @eliteteamkiller319 Жыл бұрын

    I wrote this long blurb below showing how IF we assume Bob is traveling to a star, the math works fine without involved acceleration, reference frame changes, OR gravity, and there is no paradox. However, I glossed over the fact that Bob can say Alice and Earth flew off to some region in space, which would mean we could do the exact same calculations and end up with the opposite results. _The Twin Paradox is subtle...._ That said, the solution is still easy: Bob is the one who fired his rocket. We know that creates a force, and we can try to get all Mach all day, we know Newton's Third Law is true. While either one can claim to be at rest, only one felt a force (measurable by an accelerometer), therefore the paradox is solved. Not sure why that isn't good enough for any situation that resembles reality. Sure, if they are featureless points, you'd have a point. *Regardless, when we're talking about spacetime, time, space, and all the things you derive from it, only ONE thing is actually invariant, and that is the SPACETIME INTERVAL. **_That_** is what is key. Whoever travels the longest distance through spacetime is the older twin.* . . Original post: I mean taking into account length contraction, the finite speed of light, and the Doppler effect shows the same slowing and then fast aging of Earth on the return trip from the ship. And it exactly balances to get the right ages when the distance between the clocks is zero (but at other points they will not match). Don't need to calculate accelerations, gravity, or anything else for this to work. Alice and Bob as usual. Bob wants to travel to a star 6 light years away. After slowly accelerating around the planet to get up to 0.6c, he'll head over (as he passes the Earth when the origins coincide and they give each other a high five, they set their clocks to zero; in fact to avoid the relativity of simultaneity, the high five is the very event that sets their clocks to zero). Per length contraction, the distance for Bob is 4.8 cy. Thus the trip to the star takes 8 years to Bob (4.8/0.6). But Alice calculates that the trip will take 10 years (6/0.6). The "paradox" resolves itself by just taking note of what they see (assuming they have the means to see that far). Alice will not SEE Bob reaching the star until 16 years have passed, even though she'll _calculate_ 10 years, because of the signal time for light (Bob takes 10 years to get there, and then it takes 6 years for that light to get back to Earth). That means that Alice will see Bob's clock running at half the speed of her own clock (8 years measured by Bob/16 years seen by Alice). However, when Bob reaches the star and his clock says 8 years have passed, when he looks at Alice's clock, he sees her clock as it was 6 years ago. Or at what her clock read four years (10 years - 6 years). Therefore to him, he sees _her_ clock as moving at half the rate of his own clock (4 years/8 years). _So both see the other as having a clock running at half the speed of their own on the way there._ So, on the way back according to Alice, since from what she sees at the midpoint of the trip 16 years have passed, and because calculation before Bob left showed the trip will take a total of 20 years, she will see Bob come back to Earth in only 4 years (16 + 4 = 20). Moreover, Alice knows Bob's trip must take 16 years according to his own clock (because the trip to the star takes 8 for his clock, 4.8 cy/0.6c, and 8 + 8 = 16). Which means because Alice will see Bob make the six light year journey in only four years, which _should_ take 8 years to _him,_ Alice will see Bob's clock tick at _twice_ the speed of her clock on the way back (8/4). Likewise, back to Bob. Remember, at the star, he sees Alice's clock as it was when it read four years. And from her perspective, the whole trip will take 20 years. So on the way back he will see her clock read 16 years passing, while his will only read 8 passing (20-4 = 16). So once again, Bob will _also_ see Alice's clock tick twice as fast as his (16/8). *So they BOTH see the other's clock tick half as fast as the other on the way there, and they BOTH see the other's clock tick twice as fast on the way back. However, in the end, both will agree that Bob experienced 16 years and Alice experienced 20.* There is no need to bring up either acceleration _or_gravity. All you have to do is take note that the distance is contracted for Bob.

  • @dexter8705

    @dexter8705

    Жыл бұрын

    So even if you get bumped into space like a baseball bat hitting a baseball and instantly back in an inertial reference frame. It's not physically possible ATM but theoretically it is and proves acceleration doesn't resolve the paradox, there is no time dilation, gravity stretch's space towards the mass which is the flaw with atomic clocks on satellites because they're more proned to movement unlike ones bolted to the ground. But just because a transmission is stretched taking more time doesn't mean atomic processes are slowed down..

  • @voteforhamsandwich1112
    @voteforhamsandwich11125 ай бұрын

    Sorry, i got confused. Does acceleration explain the paradox?

  • @vincenthughes5795
    @vincenthughes57952 жыл бұрын

    This guys argues with anyone day and night... First with KZreadrs, now with Einstein :DD Sadly, so many videos of saying everyone else is wrong, but I've not seen his own explanation.

  • @iliaadamanthark8336

    @iliaadamanthark8336

    2 жыл бұрын

    But is it really good to tell people lies? If this subject is not answered yet, just as well says that we don't know yet

  • @miciglaric
    @miciglaric9 ай бұрын

    Twin paradox will only occur if Twins are measuring time with double mirror clock in which light beam is reflected. If they measure time with mechanical clock time will be the same for both twins. With mirror clock after they meet again they can know which one was moving.

  • @riverchess-so7pr

    @riverchess-so7pr

    9 ай бұрын

    With ANY clock whatsoever, after they meet again, they can know which one was moving. the type of clock does not matter. whether you use mechanical clocks, or atomic clocks or light clocks , that wont change the result. Time dilation changes the flow of time itself, not just the ticking of particular clocks.

  • @dragoscoco2173
    @dragoscoco21739 ай бұрын

    My main problem is that there seems to exist a definite directionality to the time dilation effects or they are only apparent in relation to speed. Lets get gravity out of the way entirely and suppose two spaceships A and B with two clocks each sending a light pulse at each other every second. Both close and at rest to each other the pulses are synchronized. B accelerates in 1 second to 0.5c (so as to ignore any time spent in acceleration) and starts coasting. Each will find that the pulses from the other are slower then their clocks are measuring as light needs to travel more to reach them after each second. B decelerates to 0 in respect to A in 1 sec (so as to ignore any time spent in acceleration) and shortly accelerates in the other direction with 0.5c. The interesting thing is what happens when B decelerates and then accelerates back to the frequency of the pulses. It is clear that having zero speed means the pulses will be synchronized again respective to each clock. Then on the back journey the pulses will be faster than their clocks are measuring as light needs to travel less. In the end if they compare the number of pulses they might just find that they totally agree. Thus they are of the same age.

  • @riverchess-so7pr

    @riverchess-so7pr

    9 ай бұрын

    " _B accelerates in 1 second to 0.5c (so as to ignore any time spent in acceleration) and starts coasting. Each will find that the pulses from the other are slower then their clocks are measuring as light needs to travel more to reach them after each second_ " it is not just slower because of the light travel time. it is also slower because of time dilation due to the relative speed of .5c " _In the end if they compare the number of pulses they might just find that they totally agree. Thus they are of the same age_ " NO. They will NOT totally agree on the number of pulses. The pulses sent by B will be less than the number of pulses sent by A , when they reunite and compare. Because, in A's frame, B's clocks tick slower during the outgoing stage AND during the return stage. i am assuming acceleration and deceleration by B is instantaneous. So, in the end, if A had t seconds elapsed on his clock , B will have a total of t/gamma seconds elapsed on his clock. hence, in the end, if A had sent n pulses, B will have sent n/gamma pulses.

  • @prostytroll
    @prostytroll Жыл бұрын

    How about following observation. One year from my birthday the Earth will be in the same place relative to the Sun. If my twin rocket flying brother leaves the Earth on my birthday and returns exactly one year later (the Earth in the same place relative to the Sun) why could I be older than him? He returns to the same space-time as I am in after all, right?

  • @TheLazyVideo
    @TheLazyVideo Жыл бұрын

    What if both twins ARE in inertial frames? One twin can be in a circular orbit around a star and the second twin can be in a highly elliptic orbit around the star such that both orbits tangentially intersect. Since orbits are free-fall, then both twins are inertial. How does each view the other’s clock? My guess is the twin in “high orbit” (circular) will be younger than the twin in “low orbit” (elliptical and nears the star). Just like our GPS satellites around Earth grow younger by 1ns per 1s relative to us surface dwellers. But how does each twin know this? Wouldn’t each twin just think they’re following the geodesic in a curved spacetime and their geodesics merely intersect?

  • @Josiejen9
    @Josiejen93 жыл бұрын

    I believe there's a relatively simple and "correct" solution to the Twin Paradox. Travel through Spacetime is always at "c" for everything. If you are stationary in space, you travel at the maximum rate through time. And if you move through space at "c", no time elapses at all. Whatever combination of movement through space and flow of time, the sum of both is always "c", for everything. It is also crucial to remember the classic twin paradox begins and ends at Earth. We know from Special Relativity that In any inertial frame, you will always measure the speed of light at "c", and the frame from which you measure "c" is itself at rest, zero x "c" (stationary). Given the twins both start in an inertial frame (Earth) at zero velocity, Earth twin stays at zero x "c" the whole time, where time flows at its fastest rate (zero travel through Space = maximum travel through time). In comparison, Spaceship twin accelerates through space at some portion of "c". It doesn't matter if some portions are acceleration, constant velocity, deceleration or turnaround. While spaceship twin moves at any speed through space (relative to the starting inertial frame), time will flow more slowly for him (travel through space = reduced travel through time). This is why Earth twin is older and Spaceship twin is younger. It is irrefutable and the correct answer. Bear in mind speed / velocity is relative. The classic twin paradox begins with both twins on Earth. RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, Earth twin does remain in the stationary inertial frame (max flow of time), and Spaceship twin does travel through space (reduced flow of time). Earth twin is therefore always older. Given the above, does Spaceship twin have the same right to consider himself stationary ? Only with respect to his Spaceship, and all that means is he and the spaceship will experience identical flow of time. But relative to Earth twin, he CANNOT claim to be stationary. He is not in the starting inertial frame (from where "c" was measured) the whole time. We know this, because he accelerates, has some period of constant velocity, decelerates, turns around, accelerates, has another period of constant velocity and finally decelerates to end up back on Earth. He will NOT be able to measure the speed of light as "c" constantly throughout his entire return journey. Even the periods of constant velocity are movement through space (relative to the Earth's inertial frame). Relative to the Earth, he has moved through space and thus experienced less time. This is the correct answer.

  • @PADARM

    @PADARM

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, this is the "solution", because there was never a Paradox to begin with! One twin is in a INERTIAL-frame of reference and he never feels any force, in the other hand the twin on the ship is not only in one NON-inertial frame of reference, but in two NON-inertial frame.

  • @markrichards5630

    @markrichards5630

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PADARM Aren't there actually 4 non-inertial frames of ref? (1) Accelerating up to .5 C, (2)decelerating for the turn, (3) accelerating back up to .5C and then (4) the deceleration to compare clocks.

  • @PADARM

    @PADARM

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@markrichards5630 yes, you are right

  • @alwaysdisputin9930

    @alwaysdisputin9930

    2 жыл бұрын

    _"He will NOT be able to measure the speed of light as "c" constantly throughout his entire return journey. "_ This bit must be wrong because every teacher says: in a vacuum, EM radiation travels at speed, c for everyone regardless of how they're moving, if they're stationary, or accelerating or braking or whatever it's always the same speed = 300 million m/s

  • @TheHesseJames

    @TheHesseJames

    Жыл бұрын

    You always are travelling through time at the speed of c within your frame of reference. All other frames of reference also are travelling through time at the speed of c. Only when the start to observe each other they realize that there is a difference between their own "c" and the "c" of the object they observe.

  • @pedrokrause7553
    @pedrokrause75533 жыл бұрын

    So the minutephysics explanation is only wrong due to the fact that it doesn't mention that acceleration is absolute? Because in the video you stated that the rotation of planes of simultaneity is a valid solution.

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're correct yes. The rotation of planes of simultaneity determines the magnitude of the time gap between the twin's experiences, but until we know which twin is accelerating, we do not know which twin's planes of simultaneity are actually rotating, and thus who should should be aging slower/faster. We cover this in our video "Still Wrong".

  • @rclrd1
    @rclrd1 Жыл бұрын

    Nobody is puzzled that two vehicles travelling from one event and meeting up at another event find they’ve travelled different *distances* if they took *different routes!* According to relativity the *time taken* for a journey, like the *distance travelled,* depends on the journey's trajectory. Why do people call that a "paradox" and make a ridiculous controversy out of it?

  • @MirdjanHyle
    @MirdjanHyle Жыл бұрын

    I can imagine it doesn't happen very often to start a paragraph with the sentence "Einstein makes two crucial flaws in his reasoning" hahaha

  • @stevewhitt9109
    @stevewhitt91092 жыл бұрын

    I have always said that symmetry is broken when the moving twin accelerates. In any event we can always see which twin ages. This experiment has been proven decades ago. People would rather argue the theory than accept the facts that have been proven.

  • @gravitationalvelocity1905

    @gravitationalvelocity1905

    Жыл бұрын

    @@narfwhals7843 it is not acceleration per se, rather it is being in multiple reference frames. The acceleration is just the means by which the reference frame is changed. To actually calculate the net time change you just need to know the velocity and duration of the two difference reference frames.

  • @chuckwheatley3227
    @chuckwheatley32273 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the Video on Einstein. I hadn’t known all the history of his views on the twin paradox. And after reading all the replies below, it’s clear there are still different opinions on the subject. I found it interesting that no one restated the problem before offering solutions with little proof. The original problem consists of a pair of twins, one of whom (Albert) takes a trip from Earth in a high-speed rocket and returns to earth to find that the twin (Emma) who remained on Earth has aged more. This was viewed as a paradox, which raised two questions (a) is there a paradox and (b) if not, why not? Here’s my simple answer to (a) proving there is no paradox. It assumes Special Relativity is valid and therefore “time interval” (not “time”, which is confusing) dilation and length contraction are real and proven. I think everyone here would agree with that, at least for constant velocity conditions. This has nothing to say about General Relativity which has its own effects, but is not the solution for the twin paradox, which arose from Special Relativity. At the start of the trip, the twins synchronize their clocks and clock rates, agree on a rocket velocity, v, and on a turn-around distance, D, to a fixed object, e.g. a star. Albert travels to the star, reverses course instantly, and returns to earth where their clock times are compared. The formula for length contraction seen from one frame for a length in a second frame with velocity v, is DRelative = DR = D*sqrt(1-v^2). From Albert’s perspective, the Rocket traveled a total distance of 2*DR. And since |v| is constant, that means Albert’s trip time equals 2*DR/|v|. This is what his clock reads at the end of the trip, when Emma’s clock reads 2*D/|v|. The ratio of these two times equals sqrt(1-v^2), which holds for any velocity v and any distance D. There is no paradox. Note that time interval dilation was not needed for this proof. But it is needed in answering question (b), which is what the clocks are doing during the trip. It’s obvious Emma’s clock does nothing except show the time when Albert arrives back at earth. It also seems obvious to me the same can be said for Alberts clock, even though it was subject to an instant reversal in direction at the turn around. The important factor is clock rate, not clock time. I can even quote Einstein on this, after seeing the latest video at time = 16:19 on the bottom of the page. Clock rate is essentially another name for the frequency that runs a clock, and the rest of a clock is just a counter which keeps track of time. The observed frequency from one frame to the other is FR=F*sqrt(1-v^2), which states the clock rate of the other frame is seen to slow down as relative velocity increases. An instant change in the sign of v has no effect on frequency or clock rate, and there is no evidence or reason to believe that the Albert’s clock time will jump.

  • @mikegale9757

    @mikegale9757

    3 жыл бұрын

    You say it's obvious that Emma's clock is unaffected by Albert's antics. But Emma is jumping around from Albert's point of view. How can you tell which perspective is correct, especially if you eliminate other points of reference like the Earth and the fixed stars? The answer is, conservation of momentum. Emma does not feel the force of acceleration when Albert fires his rockets. Being force-free, her time axis runs parallel to the centre of momentum at all times. Albert's does not because he emits rocket propellent in order to get underway.

  • @chuckwheatley3227

    @chuckwheatley3227

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@mikegale9757 I agree with these two statements "Emma does not feel the force of acceleration when Albert fires his rockets. Albert's does not because he emits rocket propellent in order to get underway" . But can't see how this statement "Being force-free, her time axis runs parallel to the centre of momentum at all times. " is used to solve the problem. The fact that Emma' clock (as seen by Emma) is unaffected by Albert's existence seems obvious to me. But more to the point, not all points of reference were eliminated. one star is left fixed in Emma's frame. Albert travels to that star and comes back. He can observe both clocks at the start and end of the trip and see that his clock reads a smaller elapsed time (see the math in my reply). Emma doesn't even have to know there is an Albert, but It changes nothing if she also observes both clocks.

  • @mikegale9757

    @mikegale9757

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@chuckwheatley3227 Emma is incidental. She represents the reference frame Albert occupied before he felt the force at the launch event. The time axis of that initial reference frame runs parallel to the centre of momentum (CoM) and conservation of momentum ensures that will always be the case no matter what Albert does with his rockets. To drive this point home, consider the case where both twins go walkabout with equal and opposite velocities. They age at the same rate, but not as fast as a bystander who remains on the launchpad. The upshot is, velocity in the Lorentz transformation is relative to the CoM (i.e. a bystander.) If you pull some other reference frame out of your hat, you have to use the velocity addition formula to deduce the relative velocity in that context from the velocities in the CoM frame. (I suppose you might wonder why time slows down when you depart from the CoM frame. The equations work just as well if it speeds up. I think you have to defer to empirical evidence to settle that argument.) Another good thought experiment is to throw a clock at a wall and then throw a wall at a clock. What's the elapsed time on the clock before it breaks in each case? If you play around with the worldlines on a spacetime diagram for all of these cases, you will see that it all boils down to which reference frame can legitimately strike a perpendicular to its time axis and call that "now over there." i.e. Perceptions of simultaneity are just that - perceptions. Now moments are spacetime events like any other. Their objective reality begins when light is emitted, absorbed or reflected. You can tell if your perspective is skewed by examining the Doppler shift. If the clock over there turns blue or red, your perspective is askew and you must compensate accordingly before arguing with bystanders about when things happened over there.

  • @chuckwheatley3227

    @chuckwheatley3227

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mikegale9757 I must disagree with this statement. “The upshot is, velocity in the Lorentz transformation is relative to the CoM (i.e. a bystander.).” That’s not true. The velocity in the Lorentz transform is the relative velocity between two inertial frames. If one twin measures the doppler shift on the signal received from the other twin, he/she can back out if and when and where the other twin changed velocity in either frame. No bystander, or observer is needed.

  • @mikegale9757

    @mikegale9757

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chuckwheatley3227 You're not wrong, but you're missing the point, which is that relative velocity is not invariant. Hence the velocity addition formula. It's all about the initial conditions. If you know which clock is running slow, then relative velocity in that context is sufficient to deduce the speed of the other clock. The harder problem is when you don't know which clock is running slow. In that case, you need to establish the centre of momentum and work forwards form there.

  • @lamcho00
    @lamcho00 Жыл бұрын

    You are not considering extreme cases. For example imagine in the twin paradox when acceleration becomes too great of a force for a human to survive it. If the twin in the spaceship suddenly accelerates, he'll definitely feel the acceleration, the back of the ship would be crushing his bones. Now after the round trip is over only one of the twins will be dead. This example should show you where you are wrong and why both cases are not equivalent.

  • @lamcho00

    @lamcho00

    Жыл бұрын

    @@narfwhals7843 if the only difference is acceleration, then I guess it answers the *why* question. Unless you can spot another difference?

  • @lamcho00

    @lamcho00

    Жыл бұрын

    @@narfwhals7843 the easy answer here would be "because that's how the universe is". The longer one would be, it''s part of a theory and a mathematical model. That mathematical model is what all observations so far confirm. In order to move through space a force needs to be exchanged between 2 objects. This force is received in the form of acceleration. Once this acceleration is acquired, both bodies start moving through space in opposite directions but with different speeds (depending on their respective mass). The funny thing is once an object has experienced a force (received acceleration) and starts moving, that object does not only move through space but also through time. That's what Einstein figured out and that's what all observations confirm. In General Relativity this movement through time is called time-dilation. What it means is for objects which received acceleration, time flows slower (from the perspective of a stationary observer). Also time flows slower in gravitational fields. The stronger the gravitational force, the slower time flows.

  • @jacoblloydpaul4853
    @jacoblloydpaul48533 жыл бұрын

    It is claimed that the Atomic clocks kept in higher altitude ticks slightly slower compared to atomic clocks kept on the earth's surface.Does it conforms Einstein's gravity explanation for twins paradox?

  • @SaintLucifer66
    @SaintLucifer66 Жыл бұрын

    Ánd when is the motion both constant in some orbital path? then wath?

  • @dialectphilosophy

    @dialectphilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    If both twins are in orbital paths you have to compare the lengths of the spacetime paths they travel. We cover this in our "Twin Paradox in Curved Spacetime" video.

  • @user-uo1dv4kp7m
    @user-uo1dv4kp7m9 ай бұрын

    There's no need to invoke any of fictitious forces, inertial frames, accelerations (absolute or otherwise), the "fixed" stars, earth's or any other body's gravity or GR to explain the twin "paradox". In fact it's not even a paradox, rather it's an asymmetry that's entirely an expected consequence of SR alone. It's very surprising that Einstein was apparently confused by this (or perhaps it's better to say that we are in the privileged position of hindsight). The twin asymmetry arises solely because the earth twin's path through spacetime is linear whereas the space twin's path through ST is kinked at the turn-around point (irrespective of the forces and accelerations experienced there), and there's no transformation by a change of coordinates that can straighten the kink (i.e. the rotation of the space twin's planes of simultaneity). It's obvious that the accelerations are irrelevant because one does not need to know the accelerations to compute the difference in the recorded proper times (a.k.a. "dilation"), only the average outward and return velocities. The space twin's ST path has to be kinked because (s)he must return to earth in order to compare clocks at the same ST coordinates, otherwise any comparison is not valid according to SR. Read Sean Carroll's book "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" for clear explanations of SR and GR.

  • @JaredQueiroz
    @JaredQueiroz5 ай бұрын

    Speed works like a string that interacts with the three dimensions of space at a 90° angle. Like light, which actually never follows a non-linear path, when we consider "speed" as a direction in space, every time light touches a reflective surface, it comes back following the exact same path, like when you drop a basketball and it falls in a straight line. Light always bounces at 90° from every object it touches, no matter the 3D angle of that object. To us, this looks like a radiating pattern. Just put yourself in the perspective of a ray of light. Physical space would feel just like light feels to you right now, an eternal opposite, because light and physical space actually form a 90° angle with each other. Since light is speed 1 and space is speed zero, for light, space seems to be speed 1, and light is speed zero. Right, I have a complementary analogy. Imagine physical space is made out of only 100% reflective surfaces (perfect mirrors), and you are the only beam of light in existence. Now imagine what you would see bouncing forever through countless angles, each surface having its own angular configuration within 3D space. But what would you see? You would be going so incredibly fast that any change in 3D angle would feel like the same radial pattern for you, a single angle. And even deeper, since you're light and can bounce everywhere, and assuming at one point you would have bounced off all possible surface points of all objects inside this 3D mirror universe (remember that if speed=1, time=0), all points on all 3D surfaces of this entire universe of mirrors would not only feel like a single direction in space, but since your speed is infinite, you would pass through all of this in time=0. So the whole universe would feel like a 0-dimensional dot that contains all the angular information of its 3D geometry. So, yes, Mr. Einstein forgot to replace "time=0" with "space=0." Speed can be seen as another direction, not in time, but in space itself.

  • @dougrife8827
    @dougrife8827 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video about the twin paradox except that not all accelerations are accounted for. There are actually three accelerating periods with a reversal in the direction of acceleration in the middle period. To leave earth from rest requires acceleration away from earth. Looking back at earth the twin will observe clocks slowing down during the start of the journey. People of earth will appear to age slower and slower the further away the twin travels from earth. Looks like the opposite of what’s expected. But later the traveling twin must reverse the direction of the spaceship’s acceleration, say at the halfway point, if he is to ever return to earth. He will then instantaneously observe that now earth people are aging faster and faster the further away he travels. Eventually his spaceship finally stops and reverses its direction of motion but not its direction of acceleration. The third and final period would be another reversal of the direction of acceleration to slow down the spaceship so that it comes to rest again on the surface of earth. During this final period of acceleration the earth will appear once again to slow down its rotation just as it had during the start of the trip but, critically, not by enough to cancel out the effects of the second acceleration period because he’s much closer to earth during the first and third periods. The net effect then is that upon return the traveling twin has aged less than the twin who stayed on earth.

  • @zvikabar-kochva3641
    @zvikabar-kochva3641 Жыл бұрын

    I don't understand why the space twin feels force only on the far side of his yrip. Surely, he must feel it outgoing as well. After all, in the beggining of his space trip, he accelerate from 0 to substantial part of the velocity of light. Therefore, he must experince fake gravity twice. On the other hand, this does not happen to the earthbound twin. This is observer independent because accelerated motion, which is csused by a external force, can be measured locally objectively. This means that accelerated motion, caused by an external force should be recognized by all obsevers, i.e., it's an absolute phenomenon, despite the calims of the GR theory. Cotrect?

  • @stewiesaidthat
    @stewiesaidthat Жыл бұрын

    A clock in motion running slower is equivalent to a loose ball rolling back and forth on a train accelerating and decelerating. The twin is an observer, at rest, watching the ball roll back and forth.

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