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Old 23-March-2006, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by clj4
You mean, YOU are waiting. Everyone else knows the answer.
Read this one, especially the last sentence (there is no paradox)

http://sheol.org/throopw/dingle-paradox01.html
OK. I've read it :

"Each clock "slower" than the other. One slower when compared at E1. The other one slower when compared at E2.

In short, "each clock slower than the other" is a misleadingly ambiguous way of stating a precisely defined relationship between clocks and coordinates. The dingle so-called-paradox simply does not show prefered-frame theories any more consistent than special relativity. "

It does not state there is no reciprocity, nor is it YOUR method of determining if it is "A" or "B" that will experience time dilation or length contraction.

If you are unable to answer the question then please simply say so and lets move on.

To re-emphasize I am refering only to time dilation as will be evidenced by comparison of clocks in a common frame since it would be the only true change in time. Not some illusion of motion.