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Length standards and the twin paradox in the special theory of relativity
… I begin by asking what it means for a moving length to contract1 a question which obviously cannot be divorced from the propagation of length standards from one reference frame to another. I emphasize the conventionality of definitions of length. I go on to argue that it is the imposition of …