Has any individual or company tried to market time dialation as the solution to aging? They marketed the moon fairly successfully even if people won't use their purchase.
2006-06-14 02:39:25 · 5 answers · asked by Master_Of_The_Web 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Even if we could travel fast enough and overcome the energy constraints, there is another problem: the person would not perceive any increase in life span. In that person's reference frame, the person would appear to age as normal and would experience the same apparent lifespan.
2006-06-14 03:24:53 · answer #1 · answered by volume_watcher 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, for 2 reasons.
1) There is no way we know of yet to go fast enough to make time dilation large enough to matter.
2) Time dilation does not make your live longer. Let me use an example. Bear with me here. Assume you want to spend 5 hours playing 18 holes of golf but only have 5 minutes of free time. Just go to a golf course traveling near the speed of light and you can play all 18 holes in 5 minutes, right? Wrong. What would happen is that after 5 minutes of golfing you would still be on the first hole when the operator tells you that 5 hours have already passed on Earth and you ran WAY over your 5 minute time limit. What seemed like 5 minutes to you was really 5 hours on Earth. Not only have not not gained anything, but you have actually wasted 4 hours and 55 minutes that you didn't need to waste. So time dilation does not give you more time, it just makes you miss out on most of the minutes that are passing back in the "non time dilated" world.
2006-06-14 08:12:33 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given current energy production technology there simply is no way to actually realize any significant effects of time dilation. For you to even perceive the phenomenon in any substantial way you'd need to be moving at near light-speed, and that requires a propulsion system that we have not yet created.
Of course, the closer you get to light speed, the heavier you become, too. So which is it....younger but heavier or just age naturally and be happy with that? Could be a tough sell.
2006-06-14 03:11:42 · answer #3 · answered by aikikiwi87 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, the technical aspect of reaching that speed. Secondly, the weight problem. Thirdly, the cost factor. Space tourists nowadays pay out-of-the-world prices to live for just a week in the international space station. to feel the effect of time dilation, u would have to sustain great speeds for quite a bit of time. this would escalate the cost to something only governments could afford on an experimental basis. so ice demon's answer is dumb, because forget financially troubled people, the question is whether billionaires would be able to afford it, and whether it would be practical for them to spend so much money to get a few years off their age.
2006-06-14 09:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by Neil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could sell one way trips to the future. If people were sure they didn't want to live in this time period, they could move to the future. Financially troubled individuals could put some money in the bank and then live in the future as rich people once their money has grown because of interest.
2006-06-14 05:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by Link 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋