Anothers Name

M Holmes fofp at CASTLE.ED.AC.UK
Fri Sep 15 17:20:04 EDT 1995


David Hardman writes:

> >         As I understood it, he left his real girlfriend on
> > earth to fly a space mission.  Due to the relativistic time dilation
> > effect which he incurred, she would have been old when he returned
> > to earth while he would still be the same age.
>
> I don't understand this.  Surely, all the girl had to do was wait
> until she was old enough to sign her own medical consent forms to be
> frozen?

Yeah, I'd always thought that was the bug in the idea.

> Dave Hardman

FoFP



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