Open AccessOn the Clock Paradox
Author(s) -
A. Abdesselam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n21p130
Subject(s) - time dilation , phenomenon , twin paradox , theory of relativity , rest (music) , simultaneity , special relativity , epistemology , theoretical physics , mathematical economics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , classical mechanics , acoustics
Special Relativity presents before us several thought challenging paradoxes. The most famous one is the clock or twin paradox which arises from the well-known time dilation phenomenon. In this paper, we will give a brief but pedagogical treatment of this paradox. The crucial point is that the relativity of simultaneity, for events happening at different places, plays a fundamental role in understanding the apparent disagreement between the rest and the moving observers. Once this has been taken care of, the disagreement and the paradox would disappear.