I've read some other Q and A here on Yahoo about this subject and am still highly unsettled about the accepted answers.
Take this link for example
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AtEwZPUTuGon0dYaQ3mZchAjzKIX?qid=1006050710473
You all say that it is acceleration that breaks the symetry or ∆a, but what if the acceleration only happens during 1% of twin II's journey and the rest of the time he coasts. Is the entire time discrepency take place just in the accelerating periods? Because during the time that he coasts it seems the motion really is symetrical. And yet by actual experimental data this doesn't seem to be the case. It would seem to me that there must be something else responsible for breaking the symetry. Suppose also that at the furthest point of twin II's journey he stopped and we then accelerated the earth to meet twin II. What happens then? I'd like to suggest something different such as the proximity to mass or matter that breaks the symetry. What do you think?
2006-06-30
06:05:08
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Ron Allen
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