What is the effect of the twin paradoxon?

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In summary: I agree that the symmetry can only be broken by acceleration. But this does not mean that the acceleration is the only thing that breaks the symmetry.
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Sagittarius A-Star said:
And because they were born at different places, it is not invariant, if they were born at the "same time".
Nugatory said:
When you inserted that additional "from the point of view" qualifier you redefined "same age" so that it is frame-dependent and no longer has any physical significance,
robphy said:
For distinct spacelike-separated events A1 and B1 ,
not all observers will regard A1 and B1 as simultaneous
PeroK said:
This process of continually updating one's knowledge of a subject is called learning. It's the opposite of religiously adhering to an established view in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Dale said:
This is a frame variant concept.
Dale said:
τ=∫abdτ is invariant only if a and b are.
From the point of view of reference system B, event a is simultaneous with event a' and event b is simultaneous with event b'.

Does an invariant proper time elapse for a mass point B moving - from the point of view of reference system B - on a straight world line on the time axis from event a to event b?

Does no invariant proper time elapse for a mass point B' moving - from the point of view of reference system B - on a straight world line parallel to the time axis from event a' to event b'?

Does this have to do with the fact that the events a and a' and the events b and b' occur simultaneously from the point of view of the reference system B, but not from the point of view of other reference systems?
 
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