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A young-looking woman astronaut has just arrived home from a long trip. She rushes up to an old gray-haired man and in the ensuing conversation refers to him as her son. How might this be possible ?

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The goal of this exercise is to give an explanation for the following scenario concerning the special theory of relativity.

A young woman astronaut arrives home from a long trip, to see her son as an old man.

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