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Time Traveler Feature Summary

Type:
Physics at Home
Title:
Time Traveler
Description:
Try these two activities showing how special relativity affects time during space travel:
-- NOVA's Time Traveler, in which the traveling twin ages less than the state-at-home twin
-- the Exploratorium's Voyage to Epsilon Eridani 3 on how the time of a journey is measured differently by the traveler than by someone who stays at home.
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November 1, 2011 - November 15, 2011