twins unparadoxed?

Apparently the twin paradox has been resolved and by a compsci professor no less. See here His solution is pretty much the same as for Newton’s Bucket paradox.. take the whole universe as some kind of frame of reference. But I’m not sure that you are allowed to do that in relativity.

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Caspar is just one monkey among billions. Battering his keyboard without expectations even of peanuts, let alone of aping the Immortal Bard. By day he is an infantologist at Birkbeck Babylab, by night he runs BabyLaughter.net
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