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1623889 No.1623889 [Reply] [Original]

>Time dilation

For the life of me the concept is a little awkward, and I haven't been able to wrap my head completely around it yet. Could someone put it into terms that someone learning the concept could understand? Thanks.

>> No.1623894

Sagan loves you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vpu6yJPRVQ

>> No.1623897

Time is like a sheet and gravity can bend it. Immense speed creates a gravity bubble because it rips through time so fast it creates ripples.

Your mother is a whore.

>> No.1623906

>>1623889

Basically, if you are traveling in a space ship really really fast, what seems like a minute for you is a lot longer for anyone else watching you fly by.

Basically, from your perspective as the traveler, given enough energy you can travel at what seems like indefinitely high speeds, but an outside observer will never see you move faster than c. Therefore your sense of time and the observers have to be different for things to balance out.

>> No.1623917

Think of space/time as a medium like water. If you are to exert any pressure upon it, some properties of the water will be affected. With the right amount of pressure water can become more rigid. If you think of space/time as a fluid it makes much more sense.

>> No.1623941

>>1623906
so wait. if someone could look inside the window of your space ship, while YOU travel near the speed of light...would you (the traveler) seem to be moving incredible slow?

Meanwhile, the people you see from inside your ship would appear to be moving incredibly fast?

>> No.1623953

>>1623889
>>1623889

Spacetime = all one word for a reason. As you effect space so do you effect time.

As you move faster, people view you as moving slower through time. You view people moving faster in time.

The above statement is equivalent to as you move faster, people view you as being shorter (lengthwise). You view people as being longer (lengthwise).

>> No.1623961

>>1623941

basically, yes. but practically you would not be able to actually see the people due to the relative speed differences but that is the basic idea