do you think this is true or false? and please explain.?

Question

einstein theory of relativity offers a scheme for space travelers to prolong their proper lifetimes iff their spacecraft moves at close to the speed of light

Answer 1

Yes the theory is absolutely TRUE, although it is hard to beleive. Infact, hard to understand as well.

How? The whole theory of relativity is the game of frame of references. If your frame is moving with the speed of light, you will feel time is passing very slowly. Thats it.

Anyway dont worry about it. These things take their time to get absorbed.

Answer 2

It's true, and it's called time dilation. There is a paradox since the stationary people are traveling just as fast relative to the traveler, so why didn't time appear to slow down for them as viewed from the frame of reference of the traveler? This is a difference between the special theory which only regards speed, and the general theory which takes acceleration into account. The general theory accounts for this and it's the traveler's time that will slow down.

Answer 3

I would say true. I saw a few documentaries on this subject, yet i cant recall the whole idea.
But mainly it is because the closer to the speed of light a person moves the faster it takes for time to pass. Hence he can in theory prolong his lifetime.

Answer 4

Depends on your frame of reference. If moving close to the speed of light, then time for the fast-moving traveller appears to slow down from the observers frame of reference.

In the moving frame of reference however, time appears to move as normal. The travellers will not notice any difference until they slow down.

Experiments were performed with atomic clocks, which were both calibrated to the same time. Some were loaded into planes and flown in different directions. When they landed, they were found to be slightly slower than a clock which had been left on the ground. Those clocks had kept time accurately as far as they were concerned, but as far as the clock on the ground was concerned, they had slowed down.

Answer 5

False for proper lifetimes. While a person traveling at relativistic speeds may seem to live longer to us on the ground, he doesn't live any longer.
Think of it this way: if a person reads one book a year and lives to the age of 70, he reads 70 books in his lifetime. If he goes on a space journey and travels near the speed of light and comes back 100,000 of our years later just as he is dying at age 70, he would still have had time to read only 70 books.

Answer 6

According to experiments with atomic clocks years ago, his theory that time slows as you approach the speed of light is true! Stationary atomic clocks on the Earth compared with atomic clocks in fast moving jets continuously showed the clocks in the jets were slower after they landed.

Answer 7

actually the faster you go the slower time moves and the slower you go the faster time moves.for example if you were to go from point A to point B at let,s say 10mph and it took 5 hrs. time is moving faster because you have used more time to get there. Now if you made the same trip at the speed of light and it took 5 secs. to get there time is moving slower cuz it took less time to make the jaunt. Therefore if you moved faster you could actually prolong your life. now if time travel were actually possible we could all live forever.

Answer 8

True. The effect of slowing down of time when the person is moving is appreciable only when the speed is really high, in order of speed of light.

Answer 9

They will age slower than people not moving that fast from the slower people's reference. From the fast people's reference, nothing will change.