Time Dialation: if you spent 100,000 years on an airplane at 500 mph..?

Question

How many seconds younger would you be due to time and speed?

Answer 1

The speed of light is 670616629 MPH, so you are traveling at 0.000000746c (where c is the speed of light)

Time dilation is given by the equation:

to = t * (1 - (v^2 / c^2) )^(1/2)

Plugging in your values for time and speed, you find that while the rest of the world experienced 100,000 years, you experienced 99999.999999972, a difference of 0.877 seconds.

It is interesting to note (for you relativity skeptics out there) that with regard to the GPS satellites that orbit the earth, this change is more significant and without Einstein's equations of relativity, your GPS would not be accurate.

Answer 2

you would be a few seconds younger than if you hadn't gone there, yes, but it's a pretty slow speed to actually make noticable time dialation, maybe a space shuttle moving at 100,000 mph for 100 years will make you a few seconds younger than if you hadn't gone there, but what's the point in wasting that much time??

Answer 3

Exactly, you cant go back in time, the theory of time dialation states that the faster you go, time is only slowed, not reversed, at an ever increasing rate.

Answer 4

logically speaking u would not have gain any time as ur time is continously running while u are travelling but with regards to the earth time zone max u can gain is 12hrs

u leave your country and fly 180 deg round the earth u be 12hrs back in time with respect to your own country's time but if u cross beyond the 180 deg point u be travelling back towards your own country time zone in which u be adding time and not subtracting time thus with refrerence to time zone u can at most just gain 12hrs which is why our world clock setting u can only see +- 12 GMT