What is twin paradox of Einstein ? Is time dependent on speed ?

Time and Speed

 So first things first..

  • Speed = distance / time
So the above written relation/ equation is the basic definition of  speed. So if we slightly modify this for our understanding and try to hypothetically define time with help of it...

  • Time = distance / speed
So if we assume: speed to be maximum or tending to infinity then according to our modified relation, time will tend to very very small value tending to zero.



And according Albert Einstein the maximum speed achieved by any body in this universe would be c: speed of light.



Keeping in mind maximum speed of any object and relation of time with speed and distance travelled, we can conclude that an object moving with speed of light will definitely have dependence on time tending to zero or zero itself !!

True Phenomenon of Time Dilation behind this concept.

Actually the above explanation is not quantitatively correct, but can give some sort of partial explanation.

The above phenomenon, which I tried to explained is called time dilatation in physics.

And there are specific or complex equations, which provides relation between stationery time and dilated time with respect to moving object speed/velocity.



Twin Paradox ?

So it is just a simple and basic theory in physics, which has been derived from special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. If you have tried to understand the concept used above you can easily understand this too !


Assume two identical twins A and B. One of the twin A is sitting in rocket, which is moving in space with speed of the order 10^8 (Comparable to Speed of Light) and other twin B moving with very low speed or no speed (resting). It would be obvious that the twin B, who is highly bounded by time will age more compared to twin A ,who just completed his space journey. Reference time interval for comparison to be assumed as normal earth time.

Actually this is a theoretical and thought provoking experiment and much work has to be done on this to completely explain this paradox.

I would also like to request all viewers, who are having some different thoughts or some sort of modified theory on this to comment or contact me. 


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