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This video is about the famous “Twins paradox” of special relativity, how time can appear to be faster for two different observers at the same time, and which twin really is older (or younger) – the one who stays on earth or the one who flies in a rocket ship to the stars?
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder
REFERENCES
Muon lifetime and time dilation/relativity: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html#c2
MinutePhysics video about Time Rotations & Einstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajhFNcUTJI0
Experimental test of time dilation using doppler shift of light: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ives–Stilwell_experiment
Lorentz Transformations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation
Relativity of Simultaneity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
Paper on twin paradox under constant acceleration: https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0604025v3.pdf
Taking Cesium atomic clocks aboard airplanes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele–Keating_experiment
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