Re: Time question
Posted by Mike Kremer on Jun 28, 2003 at 13:23
(62.188.48.74)Re: Time question (Dogrock)
That old chestnut .....time.
Time, as Pasti intimates below....travels at different rates in different places.
What makes it difficult to understand is that....
the speed of light (670million mph) is the same for everyone.
Whether you are chasing a beam of light in a rocket, and then turn around and speed back down that same light beams source. The speed of that passing light beam is the same, when you measure it. Whether you are flying with it, or against it, it will still measure as being 670milln mph.Now since Space, Time and Energy are interlinked,
something has to give in regard to the above statement, assuming you are moving close to the speed of light, something must be different?
What's different ...is that the rate that YOUR time passes, which depends upon the speed YOU are travelling, as checked by an outside observer.*i.e Moving clocks, atomic particles, or human bodys, can be shown to have really slowed down, in proportion to the speed and length of time travelled.
An astronaut back from space has aged by a few heartbeats less than before he set out.
*Able to be checked by an outside observer, is an important part of the proof.
Its almost certain that humans living upon a planet that is being sucked into a ROTATING Black Hole will live many thousands of times longer than ourselves, due to their great speed of rotation.