time relativity?

Question

ok... so space and time are relative to each other, and we know that on Earth people can live to be 100 years old Earth time. Lets say that in space away from our Sun, from our Earth. Wouldn't we lose a standard of time and perhaps even live longer? Could our 100 years in Earth equal 1000 somewhere else?

Answer 1

Well, that's not exactly how Einstein's theory of relativity works, but you're on the right track with your end result, anyway. A year is just how long it takes for a planet to orbit its star. A year on pluto is more than 200 years on earth. So no normal human who lived on pluto would ever be much more than half a year old when he or she died.

Answer 2

No matter where you are in the universe, you will still live for a hundred earth-years. It would be cool to be able to go to another planet and live longer, but that is just not possible.

You would have to slow down time itself to live longer, but that would also mean that everything around you would be slowed down. The end result, would then be the same 100 years. Bugger!

So the only solution is to go back in time every 30 years. There could be implications doing that, but which are unknown at this point - although there has been many theories about it.

Answer 3

Wouldn't the standard of time, relativity wise, be more related to the mass and speed or maybe the mass and speed of rotation. Time elapses more slowly as speed reaches that of light, like blackholes, in which spacetime is warped and the singularity spins so fast that we could never actually witness something "fall" into a blackhole. It would appear to just be there forever, at least as long as the blackhole exists.

So if there were a planet that was about the size and mass of earth that rotated as fast as say, a neutron star, The beings on that planet would age more slowly, right? That is, assuming that any body would be able to withstand that kind of force.

Answer 4

The relativity of time is not particularly related to being on earth or not being on earth. It is related to things like speed and gravitation. But unless the speed is a large fraction of the speed of light, or the gravitation is a strong as a black hole's, the effects on time are barely noticeable.

Moving to a different planet would not produce such an effect--at least not in this galaxy. That's because all the planets in this galaxy are, in all probability, moving very slowly compared to the speed of light; and their gravities are relatively small compared to a black hole's.

If you decided to go live near a large black hole (such as the one which is thought to exist at the center of our own galaxy), time would slow down for you. You would live longer, compared to the people you left back on earth. However, it would still "feel" like 100 years to you. From your perspective, it would seem that events on earth were happening too fast--all your loved ones (and their children and grandchildren) would live out their lives and die in the blink of an eye. You would NOT have the subjective experience of living longer than 100 years.

Answer 5

It is possible in three different manners. First is chemical change, where the total process of living is reduced by slower metabolism (similar to the long lives of turtles, or that of having the body temperature reduced). The second is to live in a planetary system where the sun, and planets about it, move just below the speed of light. The last would be that of living in a parallel universe whose value of "c" was different than that of our own.

The physics trilogy, E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m describe the basis of our reality. The last equation is that of a field of gravity, or that of a field of time. The first two describe the basis of our existence, as well as that of all else comprising our universe, as being formed of electromagnetic energy, or that of the value of "c". It is for this reason all events move uniformly from the present into becoming that of the past. Where you to encounter a universe where God has formed "time" to exist in either a greater or lesser value, then your "relative" time to those of us on Earth would be different.

Answer 6

Time here on Earth and other planets in the solar systen if governed by the time it takes for a planet to make one trip around the Sun.
Like here on Earth one Solar year is 365 1/4 days, and as you go out futher awat from the Sun each solar years is longer.
In earh years how long does Saturn take to go around the Sun one time?
If you were on Satwen then in one solar year you would be one year old, but in Earth years you would be and old man or woman.
If you lived on a planet closer to the Sun that only takes about one Earth day to orbit the Sun, in the solar years of that planet, you would live to a ripe old age, going by that planets solar years.

Answer 7

For most any practical purpose, and that includes the simple actual living of your life, it simply doesn't matter how many "years" you live. You are a collection, a VAST collection, of chemical processes that chug along from before birth until after death. It is completely appropriate to think of them as steps, or like ticks of a clock. You will live that many ticks, no more, no less.

Now... one can affect the rate at which these steps chug along in many ways. But you still live the exact same number of steps. Period. Do them while travelling at a high rate of speed, of in an icebox, and they will happen more slowly. (This is why the bacteria they found in million year old ice in Antarctica were able to, very slowly, still chug along once put into a warm and nutrition filled environment.) Slow down, or move to a warmer environment and the reactions chug along faster. One way you live longer, the other not so long.

But their will be a lovely optimal set of circumstances that maximizes your enjoyment of this process. Hopefully that set is the circumstances you find yourself in. Note though, regardless of that, and of "how long" a frame of reference or environment gives you, you get basically the same number of steps to chug with and no more. So whatever the basic circumstances, there would seem, ordinarily, to be little point to getting more years to live those steps in as the steps will run more slowly in the "longer lived" version of events, but no steps will be added.

Answer 8

One year at the dwarf planet of Pluto is 241 Years of our Earth Year. So a year in pluto is a very ,very long Year.
This means that the further away from a gravitational mass( an increase of space) the longer the time is at that particular location of the Gravity Field.
Therefore ;Space and Time shells are directly proportional=that means as Space is increased ,so is Time ,in the Gravity Field of the Universe.
If a mass struture remains the same in volume and whas to move in the different time shells of the Universe that mass would have different velocities as it enters those time shells. The same scenario occurs,and applies in the world of micromasses as well.

Answer 9

No, just because we base our time in relation to Earth rotations or revolutions, doesn't mean that if the Earth stopped revolving we'd live forever. It doesn't work like that. Every animal on the planet lives for about 1 billion heartbeats (approximate average of course). Whether you're in another galaxy, or here on Earth, you will live for the same length of "time". The ONLY way this can differ is by what's known as time dilation. This is where the faster you travel, the slower time passes (in relation to whatever you're traveling faster than). Here, this explains it in more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

Answer 10

It's possible but I think you would have to reach a level of rest that's impossible to achieve, since almost everything in space is moving compared to something else.

Even if you left the Solar Sytem, you would still be rotating around the galactic center because of inertia. And the galaxy itself is speeding along space in a certain direction... and the local cluster of galaxies are all moving together also... so everything is moving. The ultimate question is moving in relation to what... most people would say everything is moving away from the point of the Big Bang... but where is that?