Assume that there is some suitably strong stable source of gravitation (a black hole, white dwarf, neutron star, whatever) around which an 'oribiter' could establish a stable orbit. Would it be possible to make the orbital radius small enough so that 1) the orbiter's gamma would exceed 2, and 2) its human occupants would not be ripped apart by tidal forces, smashed by the effective gravity inside the orbiter or cooked by radiation from the gravitational source?
If this were possible, wouldn't time for people inside the orbiter pass at half the rate (or less) than it would in the 'rest of the universe' that is at rest in relative terms?
At even higher gammas, such a scheme could be used to go to future time periods by spending pre-determined amounts of time in the orbiter (essentially putting the rest of the universe on 'fast forward'). Of course, this disregards the time and energy it'd take to accelerate/decelerate the orbiter, etc.
2006-10-27 15:14:04 · 5 answers · asked by polyglot_1234 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Hi:
Why don't you ask Charleston Heston in the Show The "Planet of The Apes" and Captian James T Kirk in the Star trek Show: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" or Star Trek the Movie - the Voyage Home- They could give a lot of good answers to that question { Just Make sure you can go back to your time or era. }
2006-10-27 15:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one is familiar with time it's relivent to the individual that's experiencing it. It is a notion. Time velocity,and mass are,all hooked up by hook or by crook, however i dont know the way im to dull. If you work it out or have any recommendations allow me recognise
2016-09-01 03:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well yes in theory, you might have something there, I dig it, the thing is would we move at one half or would it be even slower? There's really no way to tell but if you where to create your own pocket of space, well ..... you get the picture. Nice man I'm going to have to bring this one up at my next physics class.
2006-10-27 15:36:27 · answer #3 · answered by matt v 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noit practically. Even 0.9999c produces only about a factor of 70 dilation.
2006-10-27 15:19:08 · answer #4 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course it could. I wrote this two days from now......
2006-10-27 15:22:46 · answer #5 · answered by JR 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋