Funny thing, this has some truth in it.
You can't travel in past but you can slow down time.
If you put atomic clock on a plane and go at high speed around earth it will be slower than the time on stationary clock on Earth.
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Funny thing, this has some truth in it.
You can't travel in past but you can slow down time.
If you put atomic clock on a plane and go at high speed around earth it will be slower than the time on stationary clock on Earth.
I did read something in the news recently about elevation effecting time in atomic clocks. We're talking fractions of a second though
I don't think it's elevation, but related to how fast you're traveling. The closer you get to the speed of light, the slower time moves.
nope.. it was about time as a function of distance from the earth's surface.
http://www.thestar.com/news/science...-of-time-it-slows-the-closer-you-are-to-earth
but yeah, I suppose it relates directly to what you're saying too. I'm not educated enough in physics to explain it, but it makes sense.
Yup, that's correct, it's part of Einsteins special relativity theory. The basic idea is that things are viewed differently based on where they are being observed from and the changes observed are related to the speed at which these objects are moving (the closer to the speed of the light = the more dilation occurs).
The experiment you guys referred to was where they took two equal clocks with the exact same setting, one was put on the airplane and one was kept on the ground. The airplane flew around for a certain amount of time at very high speeds and when it landed, the two clocks had different times on them, the one of the plane was slightly behind.
The interesting part is the whole 'relativity' concept, so if the person standing on the ground were to see the time on the clock on the plane, it would appear to be moving slower than normal, BUT, if the people on the plane looked at that same clock, it would appear to be moving at a normal rate.
Strange and interesting stuff.
EDIT: The article dude above me posted talks about this study.
