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THE discussion of the ‘clock paradox’ of relativity theory has recently been renewed, in articles by Dingle1 and McCrea2, in the form of the question whether a space traveller from the Earth whose velocity relative to the Earth over a considerable part of his journey was comparable with the velocity of light would find on his return that the duration of the journey was less by his clock than by one which had remained on the Earth.
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COCHRAN, W. A Suggested Experiment on the ‘Clock Paradox’. Nature 179, 977–978 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179977b0
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