Einsteins theory is proved! Might be a good idea to buy a bungalow...

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kingpocky

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Although from your own perspective, it's impossible to change how long you live through relativity. You will still experience the same amount of time no matter where you live. Being at sea level will just make it appear that the people higher up are aging and dying faster than you.
 

Hazy992

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rhizhim said:
Hazy992 said:
And people thought I was mad when I said I wanted to live with the Mole People! Well who's mad now?!
you are still mad!

they all share one toothbrush!
Well I'll just bring my own! What do you say to that? MWAHAHAHA!!!
 

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the_dancy_vagrant said:
Armchair physics here, so take it for what it's worth - time is affected by mass as well as velocity. The faster you travel, the more time is dilated. Likewise, the larger a body of mass you approach, the more time is dilated.

So, if you were somehow able to accelerate a spaceship to 99% the speed of light - something like 179,000 miles per SECOND - then time for you would pass "slower". 2 weeks (for you) at that speed might end up being several years for all of the people back home that didn't book the same flight.

If, on the other hand, you were to get caught up in the event horizon of a black hole, an observer at a safe distance would see you crushed into a stream of matter in a few minutes. For you, caught in your flying coffin, time would become heavily dilated, seeming to pass very, very slowly. Those few minutes observed from the outside could seem like a much, much longer time for you, assuming that getting caught in that much gravity didn't instantly kill you. Which it would. Very much. So, so dead.

Thing is, the Earth has neither the mass nor the velocity to have a huge relativistic effect on us. The difference in the recorded passage of time on the surface of the planet vs. the recorded passage of time on a satellite 20 miles up, traveling at 30 miles per second, is a few fractions of a second per day. Not good for GPS, but according to the theory there'd be a difference of only a few minutes after many, many years.

Long story short, if you live at the top floor of a 50 story building for 70 years, relativity will end up giving you about an extra ~45 seconds or so of time. And that's assuming you stay there every moment of those 70 years.
Science is fun. Reminds me of an episode of Star Gate where they accidentally opened a Gate on a planet on the verge of getting crushed in the event horizon of a Black Hole. They closed the Gate and shut the Iris but the dilation due to the gravity was so strong it broke through and caused the people living on the base housing the Gate to be ahead by a few days than everyone else.

No idea how they solved it but it was the only real interesting episode of Star Gate I watched.
Thats... that's an amazing mind fuck. Makes me wish I could write science fiction.
 

Hawk of Battle

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What the fuck is this? This isn't news, we've known this for decades. Are they just regurgitating shit we already know now?
 

Hazy992

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rhizhim said:
Hazy992 said:
rhizhim said:
Hazy992 said:
And people thought I was mad when I said I wanted to live with the Mole People! Well who's mad now?!
you are still mad!

they all share one toothbrush!
Well I'll just bring my own! What do you say to that? MWAHAHAHA!!!
they will steal and use yours.

their planning time for world goverment takeover might be cut for about 50% with two toothbrushes.

you just want the world to be set on fire a.k.a. mad!
Well The Joker wanted to watch the world burn, wouldyou call The Joker mad? No? Didn't think so!
 

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Um....you can't really 'prove' a scientific theory. That's impossible in the way our science is designed -- it's just right for as long as we don't have any counter-evidence.

And Einstein's theory has been regarded as 'right' for quite a while...so the only news here is that it even makes a measurable difference on different heights upon earth, not only between larger distances.
 

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Yay. Of course since time would pass normally for me regardless of speed I wouldn't get to enjoy that extra time :(
 

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How in the name of Christ does your position in relation to sea level make you age faster or slower?
 

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Hazy992 said:
And people thought I was mad when I said I wanted to live with the Mole People! Well who's mad now?!
I knew that the moles needed human accomplices, I've finally found someone who admits to being one of them!
Bloody moles, responsible for everything from the recession to the twin towers. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!