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twin paradox

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twin paradox [′twin ‚par·ə‚däks]
(relativity)


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I'm very scared to do it," she tells an interviewer, who may or may not have precipitated the question with some observation on the twin paradox, the Einsteinian thought experiment that explores notions of time dilation.
Amongst these are Length Contraction, Time Dilation, the Twin Paradox and the equivalence of mass and energy summarized in the equation E=mc2.
A good example is the famous twin paradox of relativity.
 
 
 
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