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a thing i read on ttime travel theories.
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by dragon0010
on 2005-04-20 19:18:52
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| i read a something about a certian time travel theory. i had to write a paper about time travel. but anyway it stated that the closer that you got to the speed of light the faster your body would age, but in something else i read which was an expiriment by Albert Einstein which was he put clock on a plane which was travelling at a fixed rate and when he checked the clocks it stated that the one on the airplane was slightly slower than the on that was left on the ground. so i guess my question is what caused this if it was by the effect gravity or not. and if it was could we possibly use that as means to slow down a persons age......Although i could have just misread the article but that isnt very likley |
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Ahh, the wonder of time dilation. ^_^ As for your questions, the experiments with the plane traveling into the future by a few b/millionths of a second,(Forgot which it was. ^^;) no it was not, according to the theories set out by Einstein, time move slower when you are moving, then when stood at 0 velocity. This would mean, that as you get closer to the speed of light, time you litterally slow down for you, yet you would never notice it, to you time is moving at the same rate. Of course, to obtain any real sort of worthwhile time travel, you would have to be going at high fractions of the speed of light, which at current time is near impossible to do. Currently, the fast a human has moved on earth is 2193 MPH in the SR-71, I am not including the Space Shuttle, just because I am lazy. Anyways, that is only ~.00000327 times the speed of light, not anywhere close to it.
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| Time only seems slower if you move quicker is because you're used to thinking like "Hey it'd take at least 5 seconds to run to that spot", but you're going quickly, so it SEEMS like it is slowing, when it is just you going faster. And it isn't possible to go as fast/faster then light because Einstein's theory says that the faster you go, the more mass you accumulate, so the velocitity you need would be infinite. |