What is the relativity of time?

Answer 1

The Time

By the Token of Time
Indeed Man is in loss
Except those who have faith, and performed good deeds
And enjoined truth and enjoined patience and perseverence

(Translation of the meanings of the Surah Al-Asr of Quran)

Answer 2

A few answers above help explain.
Einstien showed that nothing can trave faster than the speed of light.
If you shine a light, and are travelling close to the speed of light, the light leaving you PLUS your speed, equals the speed of light.
If you travel near the speed of light, and measure your chair ( in your spaceship ), it will be the same as when you were stopped. -- the chair, you and the ruler all shrunk...
the clock on your spaceship would count the seconds as it always did, however, if you passed someone on another spaceship standing still, they would see your spaceship shrunk, and if they could see your clock - it would appear almost stopped.

Experiments have been done with atomic clocks that circled the earth at high speed and landed. They were, indeed slower.

Space and dimensions warp as you approach the speed of light.

You can look at some simple math, such as the Lorentz Transformations to calculate typical space / time problems with high velocities involved.

Also, please look at the 11 new dimensions ( the old 4 ones were XYZ and time ) and the stringy Universe, M theory, ( Ed Witten ) and the experiments on the LHC at CERN that verify the new 11 dimensions in mathematical descriptions of the Universe ...

Answer 3

Or, why is time relative? If it were not for physical time, there would be no series of events. Either everything would happen at once (perhaps in clumps) or events would not happen at all. Notice in the equations E = mc2, and m = E/c2 that the only non-variable is that of c2 - the "constant" c2 is the basis of all energy and mass values. It is the physical time value that everything in our universe is composed of. All events move from the present to the past at this value. If there were any value that were not composed of c2, then it could not exist in our universe.

There is a short paper "The Problem and Repair of Relativity" found at http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc that covers this in greater detail.

Answer 4

The relativity means that if you left earth at light speed and travelled immediately around the solar system, out of it and back, you'd lose over 100 years. Even if it took you 10 seconds, the rest of the world, here in our own time zone, would consinue as it always has.

The further you get away, the slower time goes, and it remains constant here.

Answer 5

As a object approaches the speed of light, the passage of time the object experiences slows. Theoretically, if an object is traveling at the speed of light, it will not experience the passage of time.

Therefore, the passage of time is relative to the objects speed/velocity.

Google "twin paradox" to read an interesting hypothetical story related to this concept.

Answer 6

Time flies when you're having fun, and crawls when you're bored.
Its relative. Seems different from different perspectives.

Answer 7

i hope time isnt a relative, ive been f***ing off time for yrs. ewwww, god am i a hillbilly? :P

Answer 8

kk

Answer 9

60seconds=1minute

Answer 10

e=mc^2
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