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September 2008
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twin paradox

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Most of us are aware that Einstein proved that everything was relative ... or something like that. But we go no further, believing that we aren't clever enough to understand what he did. Hardeep Aiden sets out to persuade readers that they too can understand an idea as elegantly simple as it was original.

Tags: Einstein : special relativity : time dilation : relative velocity : inertial frame : muon : twin paradox : relativity