Why don’t we generally notice the effects of special relativity in our daily lives?

Answer 1

we are too slow

Answer 2

Because we don't move at a significant fraction of light speed. The speed of light (C) is 300,000 km per second, the Earth, for instance, orbits the Sun at 30 km per second. We have no spacecraft that can approach nearly one percent of C.

Special relativity successfully describes the change in an observer's frame of reference if he/she moves at a velocity around 10% or more of C.

Answer 3

2 obvious reasons:

1. we arent ever basically travelling at the speed of light,
2. in order to notice that , we need a reference point, to be able to compare that... yeah this... relative to that is actually happening...and since we are all so busy in our lives, i dont think i or u would be standing near the Subway comparing that yeah that train compared to the one next to it is showing the effect of relativity.

Answer 4

We do. It's just that relativistic mechanics simplifies into Newtonian mechanics when you make the assertion that c is very large, which it is--with respect to human activities. The only thing I know of that has to take time dilation into effect as a matter of practicality are geopositional satellites (GPS).

Answer 5

We do. Magnetism is a relativistic effect of the electric force.

But seriously, we don't generally experience SR because it only significantly affects things that travel at nearly the speed of light.

Answer 6

unless u travel with the speed of light it aint gonna happen ull know wen u look at tyhe formulaes