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Two ways to slower aging - or just one?

Herrmann, Friedrich ORCID iD icon 1; Michael Pohlig, Michael 2
1 EME (EME), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Fakultät für Physik (PHYSIK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

In the context of teaching relativity, one encounters two situations in which two observers age at different rates. Usually, these effects are treated as if they were independent of each other. Often one is referred to as special-relativistic, the other as general-relativistic. We show that both are special cases of an effect which follows naturally from the fact that space and time form a unity. They exist in a flat space-time and therefore neither of them deserves the label general relativistic.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000170672
Veröffentlicht am 04.11.2024
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT EME (EME)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2683-2216, 1870-3542
KITopen-ID: 1000170672
Erschienen in Revista Mexicana de Física E
Verlag Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica A C
Band 21
Heft 1 Jan-Jun
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 010202
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 05.01.2024
Schlagwörter twin paradox, special relativity, general relativity
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