Can someone explain the clock paradox in relativity better than just acceleration of the departing party?

Question

Thanks to nomadd and rodz but you both miss the point. Each of the moving observers sees himself as stationary and the other as moving; so who is really moving and who is stationary. Likewise with their respective accelerations. No more platitudes please.

Bramble

Answer 1

It's not a paradox. It's just the way things work. When people tried to measure the speed and direction of the earth by measuring the speed of light in different directions, it was the same in all directions. It turned out that a fast moving person would perceive light from a flashlight he was holding traveling at the same speed as a person standing still saw the same light. Einstein came up with relativity to explain why the speed of the flashlight and the speed of the beam from it didn't add together. It turned out that time flowed at a slower rate for the moving object.

Answer 2

None of them is stationary. Because we move with the earth around the sun and the sun within the Milky Way and the whole Milky Way through the universe.
What matters is that one of them moves with more than 95% (or better even more than 95% of light speed) to produce a time dilatation effect and the other moves with much less than light speed.
What matters is not the acceleration - it is the speed itself which has been reached which produces that for the person which moves with almost lightspeed time passes slower than for the rest of the universe.
So if someone could move with 99.9999% of lightspeed then he/she would see the universe aging billions of years in some seconds observation.

Answer 3

actually, it is a fact that clocks run faster when a body accelerates because there is time dilation.