Thread: Is there a preferred frame of reference?
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Old 02-September-2007, 03:12 AM
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The Twin Paradox clearly sets the stay-at-home twin as the preferred frame of reference.
You prefer to age faster?

Seriously, that is not true. That's a misuse of the terminology--there is no preferred frame of reference, and the twin paradox is not really a paradox. The twin paradox was treated, and explained, in the very first paper on special relativity. It's completely consistent with special relativity's no preferred (inertial) frame.