is it possible for a minute to be an hour and a second to be a minute?

Question

what is this type of distortion called

Answer 1

Erm.

Are you talking about time dilation? wrt relativity?

edit: it's worth clarifying that your experience of time would be absolutely normal. The dilation is relative to other frames of reference.

Answer 2

The international standard notation for the time of day is

hh:mm:ss

where hh is the number of complete hours that have passed since midnight (00-24), mm is the number of complete minutes that have passed since the start of the hour (00-59), and ss is the number of complete seconds since the start of the minute (00-60). If the hour value is 24, then the minute and second values must be zero.

Note: The value 60 for ss might sometimes be needed during an inserted leap second in an atomic time scale like Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A single leap second 23:59:60 is inserted into the UTC time scale every few years as announced by the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris, to keep UTC from wandering away more than 0.9 s from the less constant astronomical time scale UT1, which is defined by the actual rotation of the earth. In practice you are not very likely to see a clock showing 23:59:60. Most synchronized clocks resynchronize again to UTC some time after a leap second has happened, or they temporarily slow down near the time of a leap seconds, to avoid any disruption that an out-of-range timestamp might otherwise cause.

Answer 3

Actually ,it is possible for a second to be a century and for a minute its possible to be a year .And what you call a lifetime could be just a blink of an eye .This is called relativity (theory)

Answer 4

Time dilation is one way. If you travel sufficiently close to the speed of light, your time and the external time will differ greatly.

Answer 5

no