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

[DJjaffacake]

Yeah, we've known about this for years. And if I remember correctly, they did a much cooler version of the experiment where one of the clocks was in space at some point.

 

[Pandaman1911]

So if I spend most of my time in space, where does that leave me?

While you'd age slower, the whole no gravity/no atmosphere thing would leave your muscles atrophied, your bones brittle, and your body riddled with all kinds of neato tumors and stuff. Kind of negates the life-extending effects of relativity.

 

[Desworks]

So if I spend most of my time in space, where does that leave me?

Pretty sure it said in that article that in space, time goes slower

so you probably age slower.

Alright then.

I will enjoy watching some ground walkers I know die before me.

Bad news, Space friend! The time dilation effect isn't affected by Height exactly, it's because when you are higher you are further from the Earth's core, but still on the surface, and so you are being moved through space faster than the folk at lower elevations which leads to the time dilation effect.

However when you are in space, you could be going faster or slower through space depending on how fast you've decided to move your ship, so the dilation calculations are going to get a lot harder. Though if you stick yourself in a geosynchronous orbit, you'll solve this issue. There might not be much for you to do up there, but you'll have a little extra time to do it in (from the point of people on the surface, from your point of view you get no extra time at all, which is why this is all so complicated).

 

[randomsix]

So if I spend most of my time in space, where does that leave me?

Pretty sure it said in that article that in space, time goes slower

so you probably age slower.

Alright then.

I will enjoy watching some ground walkers I know die before me.

time "slows" as acceleration is experienced, so... he'd be screwed. depending on how far out he went.

Edit: because i refer to those things which I address in the third person

 

[mad825]

So if I spend most of my time in space, where does that leave me?

Pretty sure it said in that article that in space, time goes slower

so you probably age slower.

Actually, you'll age faster as it's gravity that slows down time not the lack of it.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

My descision to move into an abandoned nuclear missle silo seems wiser every day.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm pretty sure that some people would still prefer to be above sea level given the floods that has been going on in the past (UK). What's the point to living longer if your property are all wet and you may get drowned?

 

[Redingold]

Er. This is news? Wasn't time dilation by way of gravitational fields observed over 50 years ago, in this experiment [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment]?

 

[Squilookle]

"James Chin-Wen Chou and his colleagues from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, found that when they monitored two such clocks positioned just a foot apart in height above sea level, they found that time really does run more quickly the higher you are ? just as Einstein predicted."

Two clocks? They only used TWO clocks? Shouldn't they have used a few dozen more just to be absolutely sure it wasn't just a glitch in their clockwork?

 

[Naeras]

Er. This is news? Wasn't time dilation by way of gravitational fields observed over 50 years ago, in this experiment [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment]?

If nothing else, it was definitely proved when they tried to get the GPS system to work.

 

[tautologico]

Scientists have known for decades that Einstein's theories are right. This isn't news...

Indeed. IIRC, the way it was tested was with two atomic clocks and back around 1910. Yeah

Many different predictions from Einstein's theories of relativity (special and general) were confirmed in dozens of experiments made since the first decades of the XXth century. So yeah, it's not like relativity has just been proven right.

 

[Weaver]

General relativity has been observed in several tests over a very long timespan, some even pre-dating the theory itself.

 

[Misterian]

Interesting.

But then, I'm one of those types that doesn't care how live I live as long as I live well.

On the other hand, I think I'd only find appeal in living in a penthouse if I could be allowed to skydive off it and parachute into the streets, you can probably guess how likely one can get away with that.

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

I think you've got that the wrong way around. At the event horizon of a black hole, time would appear to pass "normally" for the person within the black hole, while for the observer it would appear that time is moving slower within.

For example, say for the person within the black hole, they would be crushed in (arbitrarily) 8 seconds. For an observer watching, that 8 seconds could last for 80 years depending on the level of dilation. Does that make sense?

Dangit, that's correct. Been about a decade since I read a brief history of time.

 

[WanderingFool]

So if I spend most of my time in space, where does that leave me?

Pretty sure it said in that article that in space, time goes slower

so you probably age slower.

Alright then.

I will enjoy watching some ground walkers I know die before me.

Renegade Shepard. Always the life of the party.

OT: Well, looks like im now able to justify not moving into highrises...

 

[M920CAIN]

I think there should be a difference between "living longer" and "having more time".

 

[ElPatron]

Scientists have known for decades that Einstein's theories are right. This isn't news...

Indeed. IIRC, the way it was tested was with two atomic clocks and back around 1910. Yeah

Wait. Atomic clocks were invented in the 40's.

 

[randomsix]

Scientists have known for decades that Einstein's theories are right. This isn't news...

Indeed. IIRC, the way it was tested was with two atomic clocks and back around 1910. Yeah

Wait. Atomic clocks were invented in the 40's.

Hey, I'm not trying to real talk you, but I've just gotta real talk you.

 

[Gennadios]

If time goes slower above sea level, wouldn't relativity also force you to react to and perceive time slower and as such not notice the difference?