Submitted by Amazing_Ability504 t3_zxppah in space
left_lane_camper t1_j21szia wrote
Reply to comment by Mike2220 in Is time dilation similar to frame lagging on a computer? by Amazing_Ability504
In order to do that you would have to break the symmetry somehow. One or both of you would need to change frames either by proper acceleration or by moving near a large mass.
If you accelerate in a symmetric fashion — you both turn around at the same time and in the same way and head back together), you will find that you both actually agree on how much time has passed.
More fundamentally, there is no absolute speed whatsoever. Both of you are equally justified in saying you are stationary and the other one is moving at 0.995c and the universe will agree with both of you.
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