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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Twin Paradox
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 12:43:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 12:43:53 1985
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Here's what you've been waiting for, comments from someone who doesn't
have any real knowledge of the subject...

What I had heard was that the key is "acceleration".  Acceleration is
not relative.  Although you can't tell visually whether you are
acclerating away from a point, or it's accelerating away from you, or
some combinations of accelerations is at work, you can certainly tell
if you're accelerating, and how much, by the G-forces that you feel.

Is it not the acceleration that causes the change in time reference?
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