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Old 04-December-2003, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Eta C
Note that Hawking is saying that you get the twin paradox simply by having one twin walk to the top of a mountain.
He points out that you get a twin paradox here. I'm not sure that it's necessarily the same one.

The SR thought experiment can be set up in intergalactic space, where any gravity well is negligible, and you still end up with one younger twin.
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