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IN Nature of January 5 (p. 35), Dr. Frank S. Crawford, jun., asserts that Einstein's theory of relativity predicts an “asymmetrical ageing” of twins who separate and reunite, and cites experiments which he regards as verifying the prediction. He states also that “the ‘twin paradox’ is not even qualitatively discernible in any experiment that does not involve relative accelerations”. Dr. Crawford had previously kindly sent me another account of this work to which I replied briefly in a postscript to an article which I was then writing1.
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DINGLE, H. The ‘Clock Paradox’ of Relativity. Nature 179, 865–866 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179865a0
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