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If at the equator the earth rotates farther from it's axis, and thus the traveler on the earth at said equator travels more in general space than one near the poles, do they experience very very very tiny amounts of time dilation as a result and age a very very very small amount slower?

2007-03-28 11:16:51 · 3 answers · asked by Luis 6 in Science & Mathematics Other - Science

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yes, you are quite correct and the time dilation is measurable.

2007-03-28 12:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by Maria G 2 · 0 0

no. Effects of travel on time are for all practical purposes completely null until you get over 99% of the speed of light. This means that people near the equator would have to be zipping around the planet thousands of times per second. It would not even be possible for people at the poles to talk on the phone to ppl in the tropics because the electrons and radio waves would not be able to catch up the the ppl on the other end of the phone.

2007-03-28 18:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It depends on the speed of movement, so yes people at the equator age more slow albeit slightly in picoseconds per year. This is based on Einstein and the Quantum Mechanics of space travel. Supposedly time slows down a lot when traveling at the speed of light, but a better question would be if theoretically you move faster, would your atoms decompose to energy or do you go back in time through a warp?

2007-03-28 18:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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