Physics Letters A

Volume 140, Issue 9, 16 October 1989, Pages 479–484

A comment on the twin paradox and the Hafele-Keating experiment

DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(89)90126-6
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Abstract

We show that a theoretical and experimental analysis of the twin paradox and the Hafele-Keating experiment recently presented in this journal is non sequitur from the epistemological point of view and wrong according to the mathematical structure of relativity theory.

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