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Hi, my name is Livia and in just a few more hours I am going to be in space and on my way to a
solar system that hasn’t been touched by humankind.
It's pretty scary, I am going to be travelling seventy-three thousand light-years away from our
solar system.
I am not going to see my child
You don’t have a child
My phone is my child
You're weird
You don’t know anything about special relativity
Thats because its all nonsense
Like how dose it even work our bodys age normally
Slammed door sound
That's my crew member Brenda, she has a twin sister and said she thinks that twenty years
from now she and her identical twin sister will still be the same age and look the same.
Well, jokes on you Brenda in about twenty years your gonna owe me coffee.
Oh right I just realized I should probably explain why we will age slower in space
Now what's going to happen is something called the twin paradox
Also, the twin paradox is not actually a paradox but special relativity.
Special relativity is the study of the relationship between space and time,
Since we will be moving almost at the speed of light we will experience time in a moment, while
on earth they will experience time passing normally
When Brenda gets back Jill will be older, because Jill experienced more time passing than
Brenda.
Oh I should explain the history of the twin paradox
Albert Einstein was a part of how we discovered the twin paradox
Thanks to his paper on special relativity and the clock paradox
That laid the groundwork for the twin paradox
Here take a look at his calculations
Einstein theorised that if you started two clocks at the same time and then took one of them
travelling and the other stayed put when you got back the clock that travelled would be behind
the one that stayed put
So If I start running to work late would that make me early?
No, one clock won’t change everyone else's
Hmm still sounds like nonsense
Anyway back to explaining later on as science became more advanced, Einstein's theory was
applied to space, thus the twin paradox was born
“The Lorentz factor or Lorentz term is an expression that appears in several equations in special
relativity. It arises from deriving the Lorentz transformations. The name originates from its earlier
appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics – named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.”
– (.Fxsolver)
Here is what the equation looks like.
Show equation for 5 seconds
20 years later
Hello I am back and after fighting in an alien war I believe I am a changed woman
Show flashback of alien fight
Anyway, Person who was wrong can you come here, please come here
What is it
What do you have to say to me?
Brenda stayed silent for five seconds
I was wrong Jill has a five-year-old and looks a lot older than me
Glad you admit I was right all those many years ago
Now let's go and get my coffee
The end
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-and-the-twin-paradox-2006-02/
Weinstein Galina (2012) Einsteins Clock and Langevin’s twins
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0922.pdf
Lorentz factor - calculator. fxSolver. (n.d.). Retrieved May 24, 2022, from
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