Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!mnr From: mnr@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Marc Ringuette) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Twin Paradox - I liked it Message-ID: <18@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 09:27:58 EST Article-I.D.: f.18 Posted: Mon Nov 24 09:27:58 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Nov-86 23:01:20 EST Distribution: net Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 7 I liked throopw's explanation, and got something out of it - I had known how to reconcile two people each thinking the other is slowed down, but the tilted "simultaneity lines" were new to me. They explained what happens when the moving twin decelerates, which had puzzled me. Jeez, can't you just skip by it if you don't like it? -=*#*=- Marc Ringuette (mnr@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu)