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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Twins Paradox Resolved
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.132000.5716@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:20:00 GMT
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- In article <Bs0L9u.LwK@well.sf.ca.us> metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
- writes:
- > As for logical problems, one must give up totally on the concept of
- > distant simultaneity; and one must accept that *apparent* aging depends upon
- > direction of travel, approach or receding. There is a way to avoid both of
- > these considerable logical compromises. But I do not argue that they cannot
- > be possible, only that one must make a sacrifice (unnecessarily, it turns
- > out) of "common sense" to accept this interpretation of the experimental
- > data. -|Tom|-
- >
- I can only quote from _Through the Looking Glass_:
-
- "I can't believe that!" said Alice.
- "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone.
- "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed.
- "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
- "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was
- your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've
- believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast..."
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
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