I'm tempted to say you've already answered the question. The traveling
twin gets all 60 years worth of transmissions, and the earth twin gets
an hours worth of transmissions, spread over 60 years.
Now if they are trying to do some question and answers, there us going
to be some significant silent time.
How's that sound?
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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Tarara
| Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:48 PM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Twins on cell phones
|
|
| During our discussion of the Twins Paradox--my version has
| one twin rush off to Alpha Seti 6 (30 ly) to pick up a pizza
| and returns an hour later on his clock--a student asked, what
| if they were talking to each other on cell phones
| (intergalactic versions) throughout the trip. What does each
| twin experience. I think I can figure out what the earth
| twin hears, but am unsure what is going on with the
| travelling twin since in his round-trip he would receive all
| 60 years of transmissions from his brother. Anyone want to
| tackle this?
|
| Rick
|
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