Twins Paradox

[frog1944]

Hi,

I was looking into the implications of special relativity and one of them mentioned the "Twin's Paradox". Though I was confused as to what this was, and how the paradox is overcome within special relativity. If someone could explain that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[blasonduo]

Hi,

I was looking into the implications of special relativity and one of them mentioned the "Twin's Paradox". Though I was confused as to what this was, and how the paradox is overcome within special relativity. If someone could explain that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

The twins paradox is something you don't need to explain in the HSC course, but to quickly sum it up (VERY BRIEFLY) If one twin stays on earth and the other leaves earth in a rocket close to the speed of light, and returns. Theoretically, the twin in the rocket aged slower. HOWEVER in the perspective of the rocket, it saw the earth move away close to the speed of light and return, so theoretically, the twin on Earth should age slower.

As you can see, this doesn't really add up. So I'll link a video that explains how the paradox was solved

https://youtu.be/0iJZ_QGMLD0

[frog1944]

Awesome, thanks!