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Old August 25th 15, 10:47 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default DOUBLETHINK IN EINSTEIN'S SCHIZOPHRENIC WORLD

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ry?id=32191481
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We have ways of moving into the future. That is to have time tick more slowly for you than others, who you return to later on. We've known that since 1905, Einstein's special theory of relativity, which gives the precise prescription for how time would slow down for you if you are set into motion." x

Will time slow down or speed up for you if you are set into motion (according to special relativity)? Bad news for Neil deGrasse Tyson:

According to special relativity, if you are set into motion, time SPEEDS UP for you - you see your clock running FASTER than clocks at rest.

Here are people who correctly teach what special relativity predicts:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, David Morin, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. (...) For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow..."

http://sciliterature.50webs.com/Dialog.htm
Albert Einstein: "During the partial processes 2 and 4 [the outward and return parts of the trip] the clock U1, going at a velocity v, runs indeed at a slower pace than the resting clock U2." [Note: In Einstein's paper U2 is actually the travelling clock and U1 is the resting one, but since in the above quotation things are judged from the traveller's reference frame, U1 is said to be "going at a velocity v" while U2 is called "resting".]

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