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WERE a new Isaac Newton born to-day, we could send him space-travelling so as to return to us in thirty years time at, say, the age of three. This would be in accordance with the theory of relativity and with experimental tests of the theory1—and all we should get for our efforts would be a retarded child.
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McCREA, W. Relativistic Ageing. Nature 179, 909–910 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179909a0
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