Well, that depends on which direction you walk. Standing on the earth, you are already moving rather quickly toward the east. Therefore, if you walk west, you are actually slowing down, so time dilation would go in the opposite direction. Now, if we include the motion of the earth around the sun, the motion of the solar system through the galaxy, etc., it gets more complicated. In short, the direction you walk determines whether the time dilation is positive or negative.
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Well, that depends on which direction you walk. Standing on the earth, you are already moving rather quickly toward the east. Therefore, if you walk west, you are actually slowing down, so time dilation would go in the opposite direction. Now, if we include the motion of the earth around the sun, the motion of the solar system through the galaxy, etc., it gets more complicated. In short, the direction you walk determines whether the time dilation is positive or negative.
I am disappointed with the distinct lack of Dryson in this Dryson thread. I demand a refund.
Perhaps the thread ran Dry.
(Or is that backwards: if there's a lot of Dryson, is it running Dry then? I'm confused.)
Anyway: Dry up.
(Or is that backwards: if there's a lot of Dryson, is it running Dry then? I'm confused.)
Anyway: Dry up.
I'm hoping that once I finish time traveling into the future I'll find this thread full of posts about time travel and no more posts about other posters.
Hey, I'm not getting personal, these are just clever puns!
(okay, I thought they were clever)
Shutting up now.
(okay, I thought they were clever)
Shutting up now.
Excellent points. I stand corrected. (No pun intended, honest.)
I completely neglected to consider the inertial frame of reference itself.
When you get there will you come back and tell us what you found?
Sadly that's not possible. I'll jump into my car and accelerate to close to the speed of light. That shouldn't be a problem because there are no speed limits on German freeways.
While for me only a few minutes will have passed, this forum probably won't exist anymore so I'll have to go and check the internet archive to see how you guys continued posting.
The problem is traveling back in time isn't possible so you're rid of me.
As a sidenote: So let's assume I manage to accelerate a lot in that car... the time in the car will move much slower in relation to the time that is passing for the freeway, right? The road isn't really moving (ignoring the Earth's movement here).
So I guess it's entirely possible that at some point the freeway will just disappear after a few minutes of driving because in the future the road doesn't exist anymore?
I'm loving this.
Before you go, release a virus that bogs down the Internet. If it moves slowly enough, the conversation may still be going on by the time you get back. ("Slowing down time" can mean several things, after all.)
Just remember to have 4WD. Or in this case it would be 4-D 4WD. Or maybe that's 4DWD? I'm confused again.
Be careful with that. At 1/6 the speed of light you run risk the of running a red light.
Don't try claiming blueshift, German officers won't be amused. Instead, hang in there for up to 20 milliseconds to get to Austria, find Doppler and sue him for breaking the traffic lights.
Although XKCD is only half as funny without the hover-text.
Nice question, so if we could see the people from the future which travel in time, so they could be us and it`s recursion? Or not?)) Want you to think)
There's no evidence that beings can travel into the past and discussion of it is not science unless you have a cogent hypothesis to the contrary.
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Actually according to CERN gravity is a very weak force. The magnet on your refrigerator has more force than the gravity of Earth. This would make electromagnetism the stronger force and the force needed to break away from in order to travel along a future time line.
Actually there is no such thing at the now or present because based on a clock the present always advances every 1 second.
Even though your day starts over again every 24 hours you have not occupied a new point in the past because your body had aged 24 hours since the last 24 hour point in time.
Sorry, this is canonically contradicted by "Spaceballs".
I'd have probably cited the much more important and relevant work, "Young Einstein", but I concede that you still made your point.
I beg to differ, citing Hot Tub Time Machine, which I consider the canonical work on the subject.
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