2007-01-14 05:24:07 · 5 answers · asked by Preston 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A round trip to Mars at a good speed will be enough to sense the time distortion in the astronauts watches, you could make like a story of the time distortion been so big that can be sensed with a digital watch.
2007-01-14 05:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by runlolarun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though the effect would be small, there would also be time dialation due to the different surface gravities of the two planets, with Earth bound people seeing the universe slightly faster than Mars bound people. Acceleration affects time, and gravity is acceleration.
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The assertion that time dialation is only measurable near the speed of light is wrong. Scientists have measured time dialation experimentally and confirmed it using airplanes at high altitude.
2007-01-14 05:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by ~XenoFluX 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes like 20 something minutes for a signal to get to mars from earth because of the speed of light.
2007-01-14 06:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't see the connection. Mars is too close to geta time distortion. That is only measurable at speeds close to light, and at those speeds you are at Mars in minutes.
2007-01-14 06:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
simple mars is relitivly far away.
2007-01-14 05:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by feellicks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋