Well you are right and wrong. You are right that Bob is correct and Jill is wrong, but the reasons behind it are different. (And yea I did word it very strangely. The seeing it in slow motion was just for reference but actually that would be impossible as you said). As you know, Gravity has an effect on time, and the higher the gravity on something the faster time seems to move for it. In order to reach that near speed of light, Jill would have to accelerate and acceleration creates a sort of artificial gravity (think taking off in a plane). Now apparently artificial gravity is actual gravity in some meaning of the word and effects time as gravity would. So the acceleration and deceleration needed to reach the speed and get down from it are mathematically (not gonna write it out) just enough to counteract the effects of her speed (or Bob's speed when you look at it like that) so to her 8 years passes, and to Bob that acceleration and deceleration made him older than 8 years by the time the predicament was over.
Ta da!
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Edited by The Cellar Door: 4/5/2016 1:53:44 AMBut you never said she was going to slow down, or that she started from rest. :)
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I guess it was sort of assumed since if you start on Earth and she wasn't born on the ship and her twin wasn't.
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Well I like to keep assumptions to the minimum until we get to the quantum scale, haha.
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damn I hate this app
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Just nice to have a fellow astrophysics buff in offtopic. I look forward to seeing you around.
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Just nice to have a fello astrophysics buff in offtopic. I look forward to seeing you around.