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Mike Fontenot

['Member']Joined: December 08, 2019 at 15:09Last active: February 04, 2020 at 21:471 discussions24 comments

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I garbled the answer for the circular case. Sorry. I should have said the linear acceleration causes the traveling twin and the home twin to disagree ...
February 04, 2020 at 16:50
There are two "red herring" examples that claim to prove that acceleration doesn't cause the time difference in the twins' ages at the reunion. One is...
February 03, 2020 at 23:00
Everyone knows what is observed at the reunion: The home twin is older than the traveling twin. The controversy is over the traveler's conclusions abo...
February 03, 2020 at 20:12
Too busy right now with work on my new simultaneity method. Sorry.
January 18, 2020 at 20:09
Sorry ... I don't know why it did that to you. I've been banned for life on Physics Forum (since more than 10 years ago), so at least you didn't get b...
January 18, 2020 at 00:52
I might be able to help you understand my simultaneity method a little by just saying that my new method and the proof both share a focus on determini...
January 16, 2020 at 22:21
The most important result I got was the proof that the CMIF simultaneity method is incorrect. If my proof is correct, that's a BIG deal, because the C...
January 16, 2020 at 22:04
Yes. It is near the end of Section 7 of my webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/cadoequation/cado-reference-frame What do you mean by "the standard ...
January 16, 2020 at 21:50
Please show how to use that equation to compute the age of the home twin, according to the traveling twin, immediately before and immediately after th...
January 16, 2020 at 18:55
I don't understand that comment. It's obvious that the image received is an old, out-of-date image, so it should never be considered to be showing the...
January 16, 2020 at 16:18
There are some philosophers on this forum who are also fairly knowledgeable about special relativity and the twin paradox. Those of you in that catego...
January 16, 2020 at 13:15
I would say that it's what he computes when he properly takes the image transit time into account. I wouldn't use the term "actual" for her perspectiv...
January 15, 2020 at 22:43
That's true, provided by "views" you mean what the traveling twin CONCLUDES about the home twin's current age. His conclusion about her current age is...
January 15, 2020 at 20:33
If he instantaneously changes his velocity from +v to zero, he will conclude that she instantaneously ages by half the amount she would have aged if h...
January 14, 2020 at 22:52
That's a special relativity result. The twin "paradox" doesn't require (or profit from) general relativity. And that result applies ONLY to perpetuall...
January 12, 2020 at 19:13
Please remember that my reason for posting here is to get opinions from the philosophers on this forum on my "intuitive" philosophical comments. I'm n...
December 10, 2019 at 04:05
Thanks.
December 08, 2019 at 23:55
Your first paragraph doesn't work, because the distance between them is constantly changing, and so the actual period of the heartbeats is distorted b...
December 08, 2019 at 23:32
" No, they are actually BOTH correct. And the evidence that they each have is valid evidence fro THEMSELVES, but it contradicts the evidence of the ot...
December 08, 2019 at 23:19
She actually gets younger, according to him.
December 08, 2019 at 20:29
"For the traveler traveling away or the observer staying behind their is no difference in their relative speed so they age at the same rate." As I've ...
December 08, 2019 at 16:41
"Where do you get that from. You and are 'perpetually-inertial observers' and do not age differently." My statement applied to the case where we are m...
December 08, 2019 at 16:32
I forgot to respond to your other two points. For circular motion by the traveler, the two twins Do agree with one another. Both say the twin at the c...
December 08, 2019 at 16:28
Special relativity says that, for two perpetually-inertial observers (meaning that they have never accelerated, and never will accelerate), they EACH ...
December 08, 2019 at 16:16