From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!faustus
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Clock Problem
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.628
Posted: Tue Jan 18 23:55:04 1983
Received: Fri Jan 21 03:57:27 1983

I think the problem with the clock problem is that you are assuming
that the special theory of relativity will apply to a clock swinging
in a circle. In fact, it won't: it only applies to INERTIAL reference
frames, whereas the clock is in an ACCELERATED reference frame, or,
continuously moving between reference frames. I have not worked out
the details of how this affects the phenomenon of time dilation, but
I am confident that it will show there is no time loss. This dis-
tinction between inertial and accelerated reference frames is also
the resolution to the famous twin paradox, by the way. 


              -Wayne Christopher
               faustus@berkeley
               decvax!ucbvax!faustus