(1) Department of Physics, North Bengal University, Dist. Darjeeling(WB), Pin: 734 430, India
Abstract:
No Heading The canonical twin paradox is explained by making a correct use of the principle of equivalence. The role of the principle
of equivalence is to provide a physical agent i.e gravity which can supply the required extra aging to the rocket-bound sibling
during its acceleration phase through a gravitational time-offset effect. We follow an approach where a novel variation on
the twin paradox is used to connect gravity with the desynchronization in the clocks of two spatially distant, identically
accelerated observers. It is shown that this approach removes certain drawbacks of an earlier effort which claims to exploit
the equivalence principle in explaining the differential aging in the paradox.
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