Twin paradox simultaneity change

ID: twin-paradox-simultaneity-change

During either inertial leg, the traveller can correctly say that the moving home clock runs slowly. The missing step is deciding which distant home-clock reading is simultaneous with turnaround. By the Lorentz transformation, the outward inertial frame's constant-time line through obeys . At it meets the home world line at
For the return inertial frame, use through the same spacetime event ; its home-clock assignment is
The dashed lines in the spacetime diagram illustrate this relativity of simultaneity. For and , they assign and to the home clock. The difference of is a change in the traveller's distant-time assignment, not a sudden physical advance of the home clock.
On each leg, the traveller's of proper time corresponds to of home-clock advance according to that leg's inertial frame. Including the twin paradox simultaneity change gives , exactly the reading at reunion. Actual received light signals remain continuous across a physical turnaround; their arrival times are distinct from the distant spacetime events assigned as simultaneous by Einstein synchronisation.

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