matrixscarface Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 what would happen if we stayed in time dilation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Ugh... We are. Since we are in motion. :naughty: Maddog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenMind5 Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Time Dilation?Wanna explain to the febal minded?Op5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 what would happen if we stayed in time dilation? Nothing at all. But it depends on what you are in time dilation related to...because something could happen to the world around you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivineNathicana Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Wouldn't we not be able to perceive it if we "stayed in time dilation"? The rate of "living" per a given period of time would stay the same. We wouldn't notice it unless I guess if we had some credible reference point. And Maddog is right, we are moving so we should be "in" time dilation. - Alisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C1ay Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 what would happen if we stayed in time dilation? If your velocity is greater than 0 your are in time dilation. Not to worry though. At miniscule fractions of C the amount is negligible. Several Russian cosmonauts have spent a year or more in Earth orbit on the space station Mir. Their orbital velocity, about 7700 meters per second, which is only 0.0000257 times the speed of light, yielding a time dilation factor of 1.00000000033; for each second on board Mir, 1.00000000033 seconds pass on Earth. For every second you age on Earth, the cosmonaut in orbit ages 3 nanoseconds less. This doesn't seem like much, but it adds up, after a year the cosmonaut's watch will be 3.8 seconds behind your earthbound timepiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 You have to understand that time is not constant in the universe. Every person is moving through time at a different speed, so time dilation would not have much effect on us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humility Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 If time runs differently for different objects. You can't give the universe an age. There is no universal timeline which can be followed backwards to the beginning of the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzuuup Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 What's interesting about time dilation is that if you were traveling in a spaceship at say 90% the speed of light, not only would the people on Earth see your time to go slower than theirs, you would actually see their time to go slower than yours if you peered out of your window. It would seem like hours to your for someone on Earth to tie their laces. So it works both ways. This has nothing to do with any mechanical oddities; in fact both you and the Earthling is correct in the observations. HOwever, only if you land on Earth, would you, the traveler, be younger than the Earthlings since less time passed by for your relative to Earth. Time dilation goes combined with width contraction and mass increase as well. This means that Earthlings would not only measure your time to tick slower, they would think your spaceship got narrower, and increased in mass. Again, this works both ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenMind5 Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Once again...anyone wanna explain? Op5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonious Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Once again...anyone wanna explain? Would take a rather long-winded explanation. It took me about twelve pages to explain this principle as well as I could in a paper I wrote on time travel. I suggest reading up on special relativity, but be sure to read the most technical documents you can find for the best understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenMind5 Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 I uderstand realativity, but I would like a breife insight on "time Dialation" Op5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonious Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 I uderstand realativity, but I would like a breife insight on "time Dialation" Time dilation is what caused the twin paradox and is described similarly to the Lorentz transformation. Just as length is contracted, the passage of time is "slowed" by the same factor. So, whenever an object is in motion, it is subject to time dilation relative to slower moving objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenMind5 Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 OK! i think i get yah now... But i still have a hard time beliving in time as a actually moving thing. I personaly can only see it as a measurment like a yard or meter. (therefore no time travel) Op5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixscarface Posted March 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 ok look what if we stayed in %1000 the speed of light. not %100 what then, maybe more than the speed of light...wrap you mind around that idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivineNathicana Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Actually, we can't... You can't increase any matter to the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy, which we obviously don't have. - Alisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixscarface Posted March 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 im not saying that were going to and that we can, but in theory what would happen if we went faster than the speed of light.. noone ever said that we couldn't do faster than that just that reaching that speed is impossible....think about it... what if Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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