Twin Paradox - difference between outbound and inbound

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In summary, the Twin Paradox illustrates the effects of time dilation in special relativity, where one twin travels at high speed into space and then returns, while the other remains on Earth. The difference between outbound and inbound journeys highlights how time experienced by the traveling twin differs from that of the stationary twin. During the outbound leg, the traveling twin experiences less time due to their high velocity, while the inbound journey reaffirms this effect. Ultimately, the traveling twin ages less than the twin who stayed behind, demonstrating the relativistic effects of speed on time perception.
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Enovik said:
You article can't to be named as Lorentz transform derivation. It is some formulas derivation without a task statement. Lorentz transform must to follow from two postulates. It must to be confirmed.
The Lorentz transformation is, by definition, that coordinate transformation which under which the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames, and that's what @Ibix derived in #27 above (Note that his derivation does rely on the two postulates: The choice of a linear map is justified by the first postulate and the second postulate is why we choose the ##A=(1-Ev^2)^{-1/2}## solution over the ##A=1## solution).

Note that the Lorentz transformations are coordinate transformations, not time transformations or distance transformations. That is, if an event (point in spacetime) is assigned coordinates ##(t,x,y,z)## when using one frame, it will be assigned coordinates ##(t',x',y,z)## when using a another frame whose origin is moving at a constant velocity ##v## in the positive x direction relative to the origin of the first frame.
To get length contraction or time dilation from these formulas we need two pairs of events: the endpoints of the length being contracted or the time interval being dilated. The coordinates of these events are transformed and then the dilated time and/or contracted length can be calculated more or less as @Sagittarius A-Star suggests in #36 above, although there are some additional subtleties in the length contraction case.
(I am repeating this point because some of your other comments in this thread suggest that you may not have understood it. You may even be confusing the time dilation formula with the Lorentz transformation of the ##t## coordinate.)
More than. The time transformation can't to depend on value ##x##. There are common time in all fixed frames.
But the Lorentz transformation is a transformation of the time coordinate, not of time intervals. There is a sensible coordinate transformation in which the time coordinate is common to all frames: the Galilean transforms used by Galilean relativity, which were taken for granted by all physicists for centuries before Einstein. These do not honor Einstein's second postulate.
 
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