Einstein’s Twin Paradox is super confusing for me, every time I think I fully understand it, I find more questions. The Twin Paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity when one twin travels to outer space while the other twin stays on Earth.
When the space bound twin lands back on Earth, he’ll find that his Earthbound twin has aged much more than he has. Why is that? Watch this video to find out the simple explanation with animated cartoons.
A Tale of Two Twins from Yuanjian Luo on Vimeo
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Nodeity
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 10:42 AMWell done guys, very clever! :}
simulacrum
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 2:00 PMNice vid explaining time dilation.. though I’ve never really understood how the story qualifies as a paradox, since it is resolved by relativity.
Lucas Brown
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 4:53 PMI’ve never understood how its a paradox either. One is older than the other through time dilation… where’s the paradox?
Paul
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 5:09 PMOh, thats a very simplistic way of putting it.
Oh who am I kidding. What the hell was he talking about. I saw no Capt. Carter and Gould motherships so your going to have to dumb it down a little more for me to follow.
RichardH
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7:02 PMAh, Kevin MacLeod, the patron saint for Cheap people who want royalty free music. How you have saved my butt on occasion.
Nodeity
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 9:04 AMEhh,… ?
Stew
Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 7:37 PM1990 to 2030 isn’t 50 years :)