What is the story based on this.. There are two twins on earth..
One gets on a spaceship and comes to a distant galaxy at a speed close to the speed of light.
Looking at it like that, if 60 years have passed for the Twin who was on earth, it has been 7 years for the Twin who came back from that journey.. That’s the simple story..
Now what is the problem there? How did the speed of aging of the twins change? The reason for that is that time has changed for both of them.
So why is it called a paradox?
No.. No.. That’s not pardox..
Many people think that the paradox of the twin paradox is that the age of the two will change after one of them travels.
That is not the paradox..
The paradox that comes there is that why the age of the person who came back from the journey decreased, but the age of the person who was on earth did not decrease.
Does that sound unclear?
Let’s think about it without destroying the earth..
Then it will be clear..
Imagine that the twins Alice and Bob are in two spaceships in the same place..
Earth is not relevant here, right?
Both are in two spaceships..
Let’s look at this from Bob’s point of view.
Because motion is relative, we must always describe motion relative to some observer.
That’s why, let’s first look at it compared to Bob.. Now at time t=0, Alice took a trip compared to Bob and left..
Bob stays there without moving.. (Bob is stationary compared to Bob anyway) Now here Alice is traveling at a speed close to the speed of light..
Now when Alice comes, when Bob looks at the time on his watch, n years have passed.. But when Alice looks at the time on her watch, less than n years have passed..
Let’s call it m.. (m<n) because compared to Bob..
Alice went on the journey.. Bob was standing still.. which means that now Alice’s time has passed for Himi..
Now let’s look at this incident as seen by Alice.
This is where distiding is going to happen.. Now who was standing still compared to Alice? Not Alice..
That means, compared to Alice, Bob traveled in the other direction.
They know that motion is relative.
That means the motion is symmetric at uniform velocity.
That means I am going right with a velocity of 5 m/s relative to you and you are going left with a velocity of 5 m/s relative to me and both are the same..
There is no such thing as who is moving with exactly uniform velocity, who is really stationary, you or me..
We always look at it in comparison.
It means that there is no such thing as which one of us really moved with uniform velocity and who was really stationary..
Compared to me I was still, you moved.
Compared to you, you are still, I moved.. Then the story is the same for Alice and Bob..
Now the journey is complete, that is, compared to Alice, Bob has traveled m years since Alice looked at her watch…
Now the time of the person who traveled should not be reduced… Who traveled compared to Alice? Bob.. It means that compared to Alice, Bob’s journey time should be less than m years.
Looking at both, the time on Bob’s clock is n.. The time on Alice’s clock is m.. From Bob’s perspective, n>m.. From Alice’s perspective, m>n..
At the end of the journey, whether you look at Bob or Alice, both should be one.
Because now both of them are stationary relative to each other.. (Both are in the same frame when the journey is over) now if n>m compared to Bob, and m>n cannot be compared to Alice.
Because both of them are in the same frame, both of them want to observe the same thing..
Either n>m or m>n.. Both are in the same frame so it should be correct to say both..
It should be n>m and m>n.. Here is the discord.. Here is the contraction.. That is the paradox here..
That means, according to Bob at the end of the journey, Alice’s time must have gone less.
But according to Alice, Bob’s time should be less.
Because the movement is relative.. When two meet, the expected results are contradictory.. That is the paradox.. The twin paradox is not about how one of them got younger..
We cannot say that there is a person who has really moved because movement is relative to us..
If we could say that it was Alice who really moved, we wouldn’t have two more stories to tell directly.
If we say that, Alice will say to the other side, I didn’t go anywhere, Bob is the one who went to the other side.. How can we say no..
From Alice’s perspective, she is right.. From Bob’s perspective, Bob is also right..
hi sally…
What are you doing now… Whose time is really less when we meet each other…
Motion is relative.. we have no way of seeing it in absolute terms.. that’s because when we measure each other’s time, we always see that the other person’s time is going.
That means it cannot be m>n>m as said before.. So that is the Twin Paradox..
P.S. – This Twin Paradox is not a paradox but a pseudo paradox…
That means there is an answer to that.. It seemed like a paradox to us because we overlooked the main point to consider in that movement..
The objective of this article was to show what Twin Paradox is exactly.. I will explain how to solve it in the next article..
That is how the Twin Paradox is not really a Paradox.
That means basically whose time was spent less (n or m is bigger) and how can we know that, I will tell in that article..
Until then STAY TUNED..
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Thanks.. 😊