General relativity theory does not<\/b> \u201csolve the twin paradox of special relativity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Despite being \u201cparadoxical\u201d in the sense of contradicting our intuition that the time ordering of separated events should be absolute, there is no \u201cparadox\u201d in the sense of internal contradiction in special relativity. Nor is it impossible to analyse the experience of an accelerated observer in special relativity; and in the case where one twin is turned back (eg by a rocket) this leads to the conclusion that both agree on the difference between their ages when reunited.<\/p>\n
The only<\/b> case in which general relativity is needed is when the acceleration is due to gravity<\/b> (eg by slingshotting about a massive star) – and so does not lead to the feeling of applied force by the freely falling traveller. But as soon as gravity comes into the picture we are no longer talking about special<\/i> relativity.<\/p>\n
Source: (1001) Alan Cooper’s answer to How does the general relativity theory solve the twin paradox of special relativity? – Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General relativity theory does not \u201csolve the twin paradox of special relativity\u201d. Despite being \u201cparadoxical\u201d in the sense of contradicting our intuition that the time ordering of separated events should be absolute, there is no \u201cparadox\u201d in the sense of internal contradiction in special relativity. Nor is it impossible to analyse the experience of an … Continue reading GR and Twin Paradox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-quora-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}