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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Twin Paradox
Minkowski says you can redrive all of the results of special relativity by generalizing that formula, distance squared equals x squared plus y squared plus z squared to spacetime. But there's a clever little switch that comes in there, and I will tell you what that switch is. So think about the twin paradox because it's not a paradox. It's a thought experiment, the twin thought experiment.
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