Isnt dilation time means its getting longer ,and not slowing down?
2006-09-07 09:33:07 · 6 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
does slower mean shorter?
2006-09-07 09:38:27 · update #1
Does that mean the faster you move the slower you get?
2006-09-07 09:50:31 · update #2
Time does not have a length.
Time dilation means time is slower for a certain observer relative to another observer.
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2006-09-07 09:35:36 · answer #1 · answered by tomz17 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Time dilation occurs when two things are moving with repect to each other. Each one sees time going slower for the other one. In other words, basic processes take longer to happen. Both will measure the speed of light to be the same, though.
One basic paradox is how both can see the other as going slower. You would think that if I see you as going slower, then you would see me as going faster. That isn't the case in special relativity because the spatial part of the equations are relevant. Essentially, why one sees as being at the same place, the other won't, and that affects the time computations.
2006-09-07 16:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by mathematician 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The most fundamental element of relativity is that the speed of light is invariant: it will come out to be 299,792 km/sec no matter how or where it is measured. Time only appears to slow down as seen by an observer in a reference frame moving with respect to your reference frame. If your spaceship is passing my spaceship at a high rate of speed, and each of us is watching the wall clock in the other's spaceship through a window with a telescope, each of us will think that the other's clock is running slow. But all the onboard clocks on either ship, will, with respect to an observer on that ship, appear to be keeping perfect time.
2006-09-07 16:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light never changes--that was one of the incredible revelations that Einstein discovers. Normally things don't work like that--if someone is chasing me at 5mph and I run away at 4 mph, then the speed he approaches me with is 5-4 = 1 mph. Light doesn't work like that. If I run away from the speed of light at 5 mph, the light does not approach me at the speed of light MINUS my 5 mph--it approaches me at the speed of light, as if I were not running.
Time is the only thing slowing down at speeds approaching the speed of light--but the speed of light is constant, like the mass of the Earth. I'm not sure what you mean by "isn't dilalation time means its getting longer and not slowing down," but the speed of light is constant, always.
2006-09-07 16:39:00 · answer #4 · answered by malsirofimladris 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
let me give you an example, there a twin boys. One lives on the mainland and the other on a ship. These two boys will live there their
entire lives. the boy on the ship will age slower. So No, time goes slower
2006-09-07 16:46:16 · answer #5 · answered by sur2124 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If two people meet and synchronize their clocks, and one of them sets off on a trip at close to the speed of light and returns, the clock of the one who travelled will show less elapsed time than the clock of the one who remained behind. However, during the trip, the one who is travelling will have absolutely no sensation of time "slowing down".
2006-09-07 16:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋