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IN the course of reasoning on this subject with some of my more recalcitrant friends, I have come across a numerical example which I think makes the matter easier to follow than would any mathematical formulæ, and perhaps this might interest some readers of Nature.
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DARWIN, C. The Clock Paradox in Relativity. Nature 180, 976–977 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180976a0
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