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To: spunkets
Without the 2nd event, symmetry won't tell you which one is younger when they get back to the same frame.

The way the problem is set up, one of the participants stays in the same inertial frame the whole time, and the other does not. That's the only qualitative fact you have to know.

211 posted on 02/12/2006 9:07:36 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist

Thanks.


212 posted on 02/12/2006 9:18:48 PM PST by spunkets
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