Volume 19: Pages 3-5, 2006
A Very Doable Experiment for NASA to Look Inside the Twin Paradox
J. N. Percival
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There is wide disagreement about how the net proper time difference in the twin paradox accumulates even among those who contend that there is no paradox. The proposed experiment will resolve this debate and will also show how to significantly extend special relativity.
Keywords: twin paradox, special relativity, extension of special relativity, general relativity, GPS, VBLI, Lorentz ether theory, Hafele‐Keating experiment, NASA, space‐time model
Received: November 13, 2003; Published online: December 15, 2008