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Twin Paradox & Gravity's Effect on Time Explained.

Here's a way of looking at the twin paradox:   I'll use myself and a friend as an example.  I'm a guy so I'll use  a female friend     So just replace the twins with myself and this girl.   I'll pretend I'm this cool surfer like the silver surfer who rides light waves on his silver surfboard.   Just so happens my friend sneezes and this as in any other instance produces an electromagnetic wave.   I decide to ride this wave to Alpha Centari.    I look back at my friend and she appears not to have aged a bit and appears to be frozen in time.   Of course she would seem frozen because all I see of her is the wave I'm riding.   It's like watching a movie and I'm stuck between frames.   All I see is the current frame the one I'm riding.    She looks at me and sees me moving at the speed of light to alpha centari.  Since I'm moving at the speed of light though ...