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I read moon mission astronauts aged approx. 2sec. less than the rest of us due to reduced gravity. Also, two synced atomic clocks, one on the surface, one on high altitude aircraft, soon unsynced. If a spacecraft traveled a very low gravity path could the occupants survive hundreds or thousands of years?

2006-09-19 22:10:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Other - Science

Ace. Checked out your link. All of it. I think we are discussing same phenomenon, but different cause.Read the gravity/time dilation combined effect entry and see if you agree? Thanks for input.

2006-09-19 23:39:50 · update #1

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No its not gravity. It's how fast you travel. Faster you travel slower your clock runs. It's something called time dilation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

2006-09-19 22:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Probably not. the moon's gravitational field is one sixth of earth's which is approx 1.64N per metre squared. the law of proportionality seems to imply that for occupants to live sustain their lives for thousands of years the gravitational field must be really really really small like as in 10^-20? Since stars and other objects in space exert gravitational force according to newtons law of gravitation and because of their omnipresence, it may be impossible to find a path which will provide such little gravitational field. Thats my take anyway.

2006-09-19 22:20:41 · answer #2 · answered by Whore_of_Babylon 2 · 0 0

Life and death is in the hands of God, not gravity. There was a time when the average human life span was about 1000 years.

2006-09-19 22:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 1 4

I think you need to brush up on your knowledge of relativity.

2006-09-19 22:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

not really immortality......but i believe it will extent our age longer. Goood one bro..... keep it up!

2006-09-19 23:30:26 · answer #5 · answered by mind advanture 1 · 0 0

very very interesting, you sound quite interesting,

2006-09-19 22:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by Dawn C 5 · 1 1

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