Einstein's Relativity Affects Aging on Earth (Slightly)

nationalgeographic ^ | September 23, 2010 | Ker Than

[JoeProBono]

A winding staircase in Austria's Melk Abbey (file photo).

[cripplecreek]

I knew a one story house was a good idea.

[cripplecreek]

Unfortunately this means that Michael Moore is practically eternal.

[jimpick]

Dumbacrates are already hard at work on a way to tax that 90 billionths of a second.

[GOPJ]

Dumbacrates are already hard at work on a way to tax that 90 billionths of a second.

Yes, but only in the Time Illusion we live in - four seconds behind us (wrong to think linear but it helps with the sentence ) Republicans have been in charge for the last few decades... no new taxes in that dimension.

[wendy1946]

(Related: "Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?")...

Always being the one to have to disillusion the feeble-minded is a dirty and thankless job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Relativity is a bunch of BS, black holes are a bunch of BS, the "Bit Bang(TM)" is a bunch of BS, and the one universe which we observe and live in is the only one that there is. Relativity was based entirely on thought experiments and not on any sort of real evidence. Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.

[swatbuznik]

I’ve always been one to advocate that God creating the universe, etc. in such a short span of time, is explainable by Einstein’s theory of relativity—haha!

[MCH]

So, all you people living at higher altitudes won’t live as long as the rest of us near sea level (relatively speaking that is :). You’ll grow older and grayer faster. Guess that makes places like Denver, the mile-high city, a death trap :).

[JoeProBono]

[bunkerhill7]

Einstein's Relative [mother-in-law] Affected His Aging on Earth (Not Slightly)

Like a vignette from The Twilight Zone, new research shows that you'll age much faster standing on your mother-in-law`s staircase than you would in your own house.

[cripplecreek]

Relativity was based entirely on thought experiments and not on any sort of real evidence. Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.

So how do you explain the physical evidence of clocks measuring slower time at high rates of speed and altitude? Clocks in orbit have to be recalibrated on a regular basis to keep them synchronized with clocks on earth.

[wolfcreek]

Some of the longest living people on Earth live at high altitudes.

[JoeProBono]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Who knew Helen Thomas spent her formative years in Nepal?

[JoeProBono]

Agnes Moorehead as the old woman in The Twilight Zone episode The Invaders

[wendy1946]

That says there’s still an opening in the world for somebody who can build more accurate clocks. There’s money to be made in things like that.

[adorno]

I’ve always been one to advocate that God creating the universe, etc. in such a short span of time, is explainable by Einstein’s theory of relativity—haha!

If time is a measurable property of the universe, and that universe is a creation of God, then time itself is part of the creation. In other words, before the universe, there was no time.

After the universe was created, God set it on a continuous ever-changing course, with "time" thrown into the mix. For God to create the universe, he didn't need time the way we measure it. In the beginning, there was no time, and if there was no time, then everything that we know and can see and can measure, was created in "no time at all". Thus, the big bang is unnecessary in order to explain the vastness of the universe.

[dr_lew]

The most spectacular demonstration of relativistic physics is provided by synchrotrons, of which the celebrated LHC is an example. These accelerate particles to kinetic energies which correspond to speeds hundreds and even thousands of times the speed of light, using the classical formula, 1/2 mv². Of course, the operation of the synchrotron depends critically on synchronising the accelerating fields in time with the speed of the particles around the ring, so there can be no doubt that they do in fact approach the limiting speed of light without exceeding it.

[El Cid]

I’ve always been one to advocate that God creating the universe, etc. in such a short span of time, is explainable by Einstein’s theory of relativity—haha!

Russell Humphreys proposed a model which incorporated the Theory of Relativity to explain how a 'thousands of years old universe' and a 'billions of year old universe' were not incompatible (it took the effects of gravity on time, and the 'relative' position of the time observer).

An article is here:

Starlight and Time Article

And a post to the book is here: Starlight and Time

[cripplecreek]

So many of the things that people who don’t pay attention are calling fantasy or pure mental exercises are elegantly demonstrated in the physical world.

Einstein’s theory about gravity bending space sent scientists scrambling to photograph an eclipse. In the end it was proven when stars behind the sun were photographed during an eclipse. Today astronomy commonly uses gravitational lensing to see even deeper into space.

There’s plenty of theoretical science that hasn’t been proven or possibly can’t be proven but there’s plenty that has been proven as in the case of clocks.