If the Earth was moving faster around the sun, would we age slower?

Question

Einstein claimed that if we were to be moving at the speed of light or closer, time would slow down. Shouldn't this concept apply even if not moving at the speed of light?

Answer 1

Not so if we continue to measure the time here on earth. If the earth was moving faster around the sun, we here on earth would not notice it since we also move faster along with the earth.

However, if there were some outside observer (outside meaning very far from the earth) looking at us when this happens, we would seem to age slower to them (as compared to the original speed of the earth in its orbit.) They, in turn would seem to age slower by the same reason.

Answer 2

Time is more of a constant than light. Whether we measure it by water, a clock a calender or anything else, "time marches on". We age one year because our calender says we do. I was born May 5 so every May 5th I am a year older. If the earth went around the sun faster, I would reach the point May 5th earlier, but I would still say I am 1 year older. Just depends on how we monitor time. It is MY theory that time doesnt slow down as we approach the speed of light, it is just we can do a hell of a lot more in the same amount of time because we are moving faster.

Answer 3

Actually, time is an abstract concept that Scientists have developed to measure the movement around the sun. . Our bodys would in fact age and die in the same span as it does know, whether our year was 365 days long or 600 days long. The longer the year is, the less years you would live, before your body deminished and you passed away.

Answer 4

Infinitesmally so, but we would not even see it within our own frame of reference. A faster orbit around the sun would bring us closer in, I believe, and then life on earth would be quickly in danger of extinction.

To have significant time dilation effect, one must travel at a high percentage of the speed of light: t' = t*((1-(v^2/c^2))^0.5) , if I didn't mess up the nested parentheses ... v=ship velocity; c=light velocity; t,t'= earth time, ship time, respectively

Answer 5

Speed is relative. How fast are we really going anyway. Is it the speed of the earth around the sun? Or the speed of the sun around the galaxy? Or the speed of the galaxy relative to other galaxies or the 'centre' of the universe?

Answer 6

Technically, it would take the same amount of time, but the days would be shorter, so you could say you lived more days than if the Earth was moving normal speed.

Answer 7

No, age number-wise we'd be getting older faster because of the quicker revolution around the sun.
Currently, it takes 365 days to revolve around the sun. Anything faster would make the year shorter.

Answer 8

We would, in fact, age slower to an outside observer. Since we would be moving more quickly, time would pass just -slightly- slower for us than those who are not moving as fast. Unfortunately, we would not notice the difference, as the passage of time would go unchanged according to our point of view.

Answer 9

i don't think so..
what i think of is that we will age faster..

earth moving faster would mean time will pass more quickly..
because tomorrow is right ahead everytime.. then it will be tomorrow soon and days would pass.. we'll age faster too.
age in the sense of how old we are..

but in the aging of our body, we will look younger than our real age, that of the real revolution time of the earth around the sun

Answer 10

Yes, because of relativistic time dilation. But the effect would be too small to measure without precision instruments. GPS satellites emit extremely precise time signals, so they must (and do) compensate for time dilation caused by their orbital speed, even though the effect is tiny.