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We agree that the twin can no longer judge his true age once set in motion.Just thinking about time dilation. Just because an object undergoes time dilation, it doesn't mean that the age of the object is untrue. An astronaut for example may in space, slow in time. But the astronaut still experiences time as if it were normal. What value is there in telling someone they are young if they had experienced being old?
The astronaught may think his time is the same, but you and I both know for a fact that as his velocity increases, his clocks do in fact slow. Need we discuss GPS?
Now we agree that the astronaught incorrectly believes they haven't, that he believes it is your clocks that are slowing. So in reality the astronaught can not even detect changes to his own clocks, but also incorrectly believes your clocks are changing. So once he was set in motion he couldn't get anything correct, now could he, and it is his perception you want to use...... even when you know for a fact his clocks slow from the rate they were before......
No one is arguing the astronaught thinks he ages at the same rate as always, just the simple fact you and I know he doesn't, and that to calaculate his true age would require you to perform time dilation corrections for when his clocks ticked faster before he began accelerating...... it would be impossible to calculate his true age using the rate his clocks now tick.
The problem is you all think seconds of a longer duration equal seconds of a shorter duration. That we call two different things the same is the start of the problem. But the real problem is none of you really understand why light travels at c regardless of velocity, which is the root of your problem. To all of you it just magically does....
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