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  • gingerjedi
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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>

    Which is what I said? I have seen planet of the apes you know.

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  • TimberWolf
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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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  • centurian
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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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  • gingerjedi
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    Run away from the office, the closer you get to light speed the more relative time will have passed when you get back.
    Last edited by gingerjedi; 5 April 2011, 18:07.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    My lunch, which I have been waiting bloody ages for.
    Right now I have some perspective.

    What is white and yellow and moves at 125mph? A train driver's egg sandwiches.

    Originally posted by TalkieToaster
    Given that God is infinite, the universe is also infinate, would you like a toasted teacake?

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    Relative to what?
    My lunch, which I have been waiting bloody ages for.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    Relativity question
    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    I got in at nine thirty, I've been here for what seems like 7 hrs, and yet it's only quarter to eleven.

    How fast am I moving?
    Relative to what?

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Do you have your own gravity field?
    Everyone does, to some extent.

    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Do you find objects attach themselves to you?
    I've always put that down to magnetism

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    You might be on to something. I'm the only person in my office and I'm the only person I have ever worked with who has ever bought a KFC family bucket back to their desk. Although I did share some of the chips.
    Fatty. Do you have your own gravity field? Do you find objects attach themselves to you?

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by hyperD View Post
    Try looking around the office for a large porker gorging on a KFC family bucket and move further away. If you can't then you may be within her event horizon.
    You might be on to something. I'm the only person in my office and I'm the only person I have ever worked with who has ever bought a KFC family bucket back to their desk. Although I did share some of the chips.

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    I got in at nine thirty, I've been here for what seems like 7 hrs, and yet it's only quarter to eleven.

    How fast am I moving?
    You may be experiencing some time dilation effects as you might be in the presence of a large mass.

    Try looking around the office for a large porker gorging on a KFC family bucket and move further away. If you can't then you may be within her event horizon.

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  • ThomasSoerensen
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    I got in at nine thirty, I've been here for what seems like 7 hrs, and yet it's only quarter to eleven.

    How fast am I moving?
    Not fast enough to stop typing it seems. Speed up.

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  • doodab
    started a topic Relativity question

    Relativity question

    I got in at nine thirty, I've been here for what seems like 7 hrs, and yet it's only quarter to eleven.

    How fast am I moving?

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