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Is it really true that time dilation would significantly affect human age at high speeds. Or is it more likely that since because of the relative frame of time...say that 10 years passes on earth relative to 1 year on an outgoing space ship....that while people on earth will age 10 years, and people on the spacecraft will age 1 year based on their clocks.. However in reality 1 year is equivalent to 10 years. So looks can be deceiving. Or will people actually physically age?

2007-08-18 11:25:04 · 6 answers · asked by Gary 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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MATTER: The Other Name for Illusion
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The Views Of Scientists On The Idea That Time Is A Perception
Let us explain this with one of Einstein's thought experiments. Suppose that there are two twin brothers. One of them stays in this world, the other goes on a space journey during which he travels
almost at the speed of light. When he returns from space, he will find that his twin brother is much older than he is. The reason for this is that the time passed much more slowly for the brother who went on the space trip. The same example can be thought of in relation to a father who went on a space trip in a rocket traveling at nearly 99 percent of the speed of time and his son who remained on this earth. According to Einstein, if the father was 27 years old and his son was three, 30 earth-years later when the father returned to earth, the son would be 33 and the father would be 30 years old. 45

The relativity of time is not something that is relative to the speeding up or slowing down of the clock; it comes from the fact that every material system, to the particles at the subatomic level, works at different rates of speed. In an environment where time was slowed down, a person's heartbeat, rate of cell division and brain activity would happen more slowly. In this situation, a person would go about his daily business unaware that time had slowed down.
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2007-08-18 13:07:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You are talking about he famous Twin Paradox and yes it is true that people traveling fast will age at different rates.

Alpha Centuria is about 4 light years from here, and our closest star. A journey at near light speed would take about 8 years to the twin left behind on the earth, but to the twin that made the trip time dilation would have slowed down his aging to only a few months.

Time dilatation is true and has been proven using atomic clocks on both the space station and airplanes. If one twin was a airline pilot and the other was a business man then the time dilatation caused by the pilot’s travels would cause him to be a few microseconds younger than his brother.

According to the Special Theory of Relativity the faster you move and the closer you approach the speed of light the slower time moves for you and your mass increases, your dimension in the length of travel also shrinks. So if you were to reach 0.99% the speed of light, time would slow to a crawl and almost stop, your mass would be near infinite, and your length would be near zero. Trying to move a spaceship that keeps increasing in mass is a difficult task so trying to get a spaceship moving at 0.9% the speed of light would take a huge amount of energy more even than that produced by a matter-antimatter reaction.

Star Trek gets around Einstein’s limit by traveling in a space bubble that is moving faster than the speed of light. However, they have inertial dampeners. According to classical physics an object in motion tends to stay in motion (inertia) and the sudden shock of decreasing from near light speed would be enough to turn the crew into a thin jelly. So I don’t recommend near light speed racing, just think of how much trouble you would have making a turn, it would be enough to crush the crew.

2007-08-18 11:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 2 0

Time does not seem to dilate, but relative to others traveling at different speeds, yes, they would age at different rates. The difference in age would depend on the duration of the trip and the difference in velocity, but a person who went on a high-speed trip would actually age less than those who he left behind.

2007-08-18 11:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by The Thing from Planet 9 1 · 0 0

It would not. For relativity to make an excellent distinction, you're able to desire to be moving close to easy-velocity, or close to a minimum of a few thing VERY, VERY vast. larger planets do not make adequate of a distinction. i will think of that persons in satellites have fractions of seconds shaved off however. EDIT: I misunderstood. you're asking WHY. nicely, take a physics direction. Relativity isn't easy to coach. besides, once you're below relativistic outcomes, you will notice time pass in a diverse way for different persons. in spite of the undeniable fact that, time to you is unchanged. in case you went easy velocity, and got here decrease back, you would be youthful than anybody else. Did you age slower, or did anybody else age speedier? Technically, the two are the superb option, and there's no way of proving which view to take. Joey: those mechanical clocks are not affected in any respect. Your theory of them is affected, such that their time is now diverse from yours.

2016-10-16 01:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Time will be different for the two groups so they will age at different speeds. Time dilation effects every Chemical and atomic reaction

2007-08-18 11:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No, you will always age at the normal rate in your *own* inertial time frame.

2007-08-18 11:28:29 · answer #6 · answered by guyster 6 · 1 0

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