Invariance of reunion ages under clock resynchronization

ID: invariance-of-reunion-ages-under-clock-resynchronization

Consider a change of distant-time convention , where is constant and . This changes time labels and simultaneity slices while leaving the world lines and the metric tensor as geometric objects unchanged. In one spatial dimension,
Substitute into the Minkowski interval to obtain the formula. For a timelike curve, the proper time calculated from this transformed metric tensor equals the old value. At shared departure and reunion events with , the labels also obey . Thus a distant synchronization convention cannot alter the twin paradox's reunited clock readings. It would be an error to change time labels while retaining the old diagonal metric components.

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