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    <pedant>The effects of time dilation due to general relativity means that if you are moving fast, then your time frame slows down, so time around you progresses faster. So 7hrs in your time would mean more time has passed for everything else, not less.</pedant>

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      Originally posted by centurian View Post
      <pedant>The effects of time dilation due to general relativity means that if you are moving fast, then your time frame slows down, so time around you progresses faster. So 7hrs in your time would mean more time has passed for everything else, not less.</pedant>

      <pendent too> Special Relativity

      In General Relativity, all observers agree on who is affected by time dilation affects IIRC. And in Special Relativity it doesn't make much time to talk about agreeing on time or space separately (everything moves at c in space-time), although Proper Time is universal. That is, your watch, to you, always ticks at the same rate.

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        #13
        Originally posted by centurian View Post
        <pedant>The effects of time dilation due to general relativity means that if you are moving fast, then your time frame slows down, so time around you progresses faster. So 7hrs in your time would mean more time has passed for everything else, not less.</pedant>

        Which is what I said? I have seen planet of the apes you know.
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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