coleman26 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Coleman -- you may be quoting from another theory but if Einstein is right, it would in fact be that much less time passed for those people travelling near light speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Interesting. i'll have to double check that, but it seems to fly in the face of everything I've ever understood to be true. I could very well be wrong, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Those poor kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 That is a hell of a lot to assume. The fastest any human has ever traveled is 24,830 MPH by the crew of Apollo 10 in 1969. The speed of light is over 670 million miles per hour. So we have done less than 1% of the speed of light. Less than 0.01% actually. But we havent really been trying yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleman26 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Yeah, it does appear like my understanding of time dilation was completely incorrect. Thanks for the link though, I'm not a big fan of being wrong, so that'll help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Yeah, it does appear like my understanding of time dilation was completely incorrect. Thanks for the link though, I'm not a big fan of being wrong, so that'll help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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