Talk:Twin paradox/Literature

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 * USENET Physics FAQ from here
 * Bruno van Rossum's solution from here
 * Brans and Stewart (1973) paper on twin paradox in compact space, from here
 * Ives' 1937 paper, from [|here]
 * Mehta2001 from here
 * Ricker3rd2005 from here
 * page 2 of Science at the Cross Roads - A Summary of Dingle's Critique of Special Relativity from here
 * Wang1999 from here
 * Mendel Sachs' proposed resolution of the clock paradox. Physics Today (Sept 1971, pp23-29), from here
 * Lasky's 2003 SciAm article from here
 * Builder1957a from here
 * Builder1959c from here
 * Hafele citation of Builder1959 from here
 * Chang1993 from here
 * Relativity in the Global Positioning System from here
 * Unnikrishnan's Current Science paper from here
 * Harald88 mentions English translation of Einstein1918k but gives no source from here
 * English tranlation of Einstein1918k provided by Cleon from here
 * Kak2006 from here
 * SciAm paper, possibly not referring to Lasky2003, from here
 * a Ricker from here
 * another Ricker from here
 * five papers published in the European Journal Of Physics since 2002 that attempt to solve the paradox, from here
 * Dirk Van de moortel's site from here
 * Edward Schaefer USENET posting from here
 * Schaefer1997 from here
 * Ned Wright offers a quintuplets scenario, from here

TwPx's Proposal
from here
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 * I.J. Good, ''The Self Consistency of the Kinematics of Special Relativity", Phys. Essays 4, 591 (1991)
 * J.N. Percival, The Twin Paradox Analyzed Using Two Different Space-Time Models, Phys. Essays, 8(1), 29 (1995).
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 * E. Sheldon, ''Relativistic twins or sextuplets?", Eur. J. of Phys., 24, 91 (2003)

Tables and Computations 1
by wwoods, from here: Maybe adding something like this would be helpful in explaining what's going on:


 * T is the time the traveling twin takes to reach turnover, in the stay-at-home's rest frame.
 * v is the speed of the traveling twin. For simplicity, acceleration takes negligible time.


 * O is the point at which the traveling twin leaves the stay-at-home.
 * E is the point at which the traveling twin reverses course.
 * D is the point at which the traveling twin returns home.


 * A is the point simultaneous with turnover, in the outbound twin's rest frame.
 * B is the point simultaneous with turnover, in the stay-at-home twin's rest frame.
 * C is the point simultaneous with turnover, in the returning twin's rest frame.


 * [x1, t1] is the rest frame of the stay-at-home twin, with origin at O.
 * [x2, t2] is the rest frame of the outbound twin, with origin at O.
 * [x3, t3] is the rest frame of the returning twin, with origin at O.
 * [x4, t4] is the rest frame of the returning twin, translated so the coordinates of E are the same as in frame #2.

A worked example: If &gamma; = 2 (implying v = √3c/2 = 0.867 c), and T = 1 [whatever]

Diagrams would be nice, but ASCII art isn't well suited for those long skinny triangles. The important time periods can be read out of the table:
 * The stay-at-home twin experiences the interval OD = 2T.
 * The traveling twin experiences the intervals OE + ED = 0.5T + 0.5T = 1T.
 * The traveling twin sees the stay-at-home experiencing the intervals OA + CD = 0.25T + 0.25T = 0.5T.

—wwoods 19:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC) [typos fixed, 21:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)][19:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)]

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author = {Toichiro Kinoshita}, title = {Quantum Electrodynamics}, publisher = {World Scientific}, year = {1990}, pages = 539-549 isbn = {9810202148}, googleinfo = {http://books.google.com/books?id=bhuBDAcc2zQC}, schmiednote = {p539 "As a bonus it sheds light on the so-called twin paradox, gives an upper limit to the  granularity of space-time, and tests the CPT invariance of the weak ..."}


 * Paul Sukys, "Lifting the scientific veil : science appreciation for the nonscientist", p192-199, Google Books


 * p95 of Grøn and Hervik's "Einstein's general theory of relativity"


 * Mildred Benton, "The clock problem (clock paradox) in relativity : theories, both pro and con, recorded in the literature : an annotated bibliography", WorldCat1 WorldCat2, ~250 entries, Naval Research Laboratory Bibliography No. 15, 1959


 * diff: physorg.com report on arxiv:0905.2428v1