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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Does 'Time' goes faster?
« on: 10/11/2004 08:38:53 »
In last weeks assembly in our college the Physics teacher talked about Time and what really caught me was that he said Time is not set, it's different to everyone. So your time might be slower or faster than my time.
Time is said to be the 4th Dimension. The way he descibed it is that in order to descibe 3D, we can take a step back to look at the world in 2D and if you ask a 2D person to walk in one direction forever in this world. He will eventually come back to where he started (remember we are speaking theoretically here people, he will be dead by then). As for time, if you ask a 3D person to approach one dimension in a speed so fast that it will eventually get back to the same time. (Is this making any sense)
I'm not sure I quite understood it myself because I'm not really a Physic person as you can see i don't post a lot of message on this section of forum.
One interesting theory or experiment the scientists did was:
Have 2 clocks set exactly to the same time.
Tie one clock to a space shuttle and one stay on the ground.
Fly the shuttle round Earth as fast as is can go.
What they said was when the shuttle reach the same point as the stationary clock. The two clock will have different time, the one on the shuttle will go slower. Confusing or what...
Tom
Time is said to be the 4th Dimension. The way he descibed it is that in order to descibe 3D, we can take a step back to look at the world in 2D and if you ask a 2D person to walk in one direction forever in this world. He will eventually come back to where he started (remember we are speaking theoretically here people, he will be dead by then). As for time, if you ask a 3D person to approach one dimension in a speed so fast that it will eventually get back to the same time. (Is this making any sense)
I'm not sure I quite understood it myself because I'm not really a Physic person as you can see i don't post a lot of message on this section of forum.
One interesting theory or experiment the scientists did was:
Have 2 clocks set exactly to the same time.
Tie one clock to a space shuttle and one stay on the ground.
Fly the shuttle round Earth as fast as is can go.
What they said was when the shuttle reach the same point as the stationary clock. The two clock will have different time, the one on the shuttle will go slower. Confusing or what...
Tom