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TWIN PARADOX
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"Twins are separated when one leaves the Earth in a rocket traveling at near light speeds. Upon
the twin's return, one of them has aged much more than the other. At the end of such a rocket
trip, will the twin on Earth be older than the rocket twin, or will the rocket twin be older than the
twin that remained on Earth? Both views are correct according to the theory of the special
relativity. Yet they are contradictory and both cannot be true."
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From an external viewpoint, is would appear that there was no time difference at all. The twin in
the rocket went for a ride within the confines of the universe and so time proceeds the same for
that twin as it does for every other place in our universe. One will not age faster than the other.
Perhaps there should be a definition of age. The age of something is how long it exists from a
universal time standpoint.
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