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To: ruiner

Well they took an atomic clock on plane far slower than the blackbird and flew it around the world and it was off by a fraction of a second.


7 posted on 02/05/2005 3:23:35 PM PST by Flightdeck (Liberals see Saddam's mass graves as half full. I prefer to see them as half empty.)
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To: Flightdeck

Let's say we develop an aircraft, say, star wars movie type stuff. What would be the outcome. Will we be able to go forward or backward in time? It's an intriguing topic.


14 posted on 02/05/2005 3:29:11 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Flightdeck

There's a difference between 1/2 and 1/200000000. Both are fractions :)

From a website:

"Several Russian cosmonauts have spent a year or more in Earth orbit on the space station Mir. Their orbital velocity, about 7700 metres per second . . . 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."


236 posted on 02/05/2005 7:24:24 PM PST by ruiner
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