Please. This experiment was already done with atomic clocks using a jet airliner flying around the globe at hundreds of miles an hour and the difference of the two clocks was measured in billionths of a second. Those are just cheap "made in China stop watches". Nice effort though.
The expected difference due to time dilation effects at those speeds is much less than a nanosecond. There's more error from your pressing the stopwatch buttons than that. Your cheap watches are probably using quartz oscillators, which accounts for the two-second difference. Try it with the stopwatches reversed, and you'll probably get the opposite result.
Time dilation is only BARELY seen when a watch (accurate to within 0.00000001 of a second) is taken into space and measured against a watch with a velocity of zero. The other watch does not need to be stationary, and even when the watch is travelling through space at over 50,000km/h there is still not a significant difference, since it is in exponential comparison to the upper limit of speed (the speed of light, 3x10^8m/s).
This video is such a lame fake, 55 miles per hour for 20 minutes won't make a shred of difference to stopwatches accurate to 0.01 of a second. Just check the formula yourself and try it.
So, if "time dilation" is a real, proven phenomenon, then in theory would an astronaut traveling at near light speed around in space for 30-40 years, return to earth and be "younger" than someone who was born at the exact same time?
i have this strange problem with watches they slow down when i put em on !!??? only clock type ones thought !! this has been happening to me for years !!! can anyone tell me why ??? its got me f*#k"ed as to why???
Please. This experiment was already done with atomic clocks using a jet airliner flying around the globe at hundreds of miles an hour and the difference of the two clocks was measured in billionths of a second.
ReplyDeleteThose are just cheap "made in China stop watches". Nice effort though.
The expected difference due to time dilation effects at those speeds is much less than a nanosecond. There's more error from your pressing the stopwatch buttons than that. Your cheap watches are probably using quartz oscillators, which accounts for the two-second difference. Try it with the stopwatches reversed, and you'll probably get the opposite result.
ReplyDeleteYou would have to be traveling at about 35 MILLION miles an hour to get a 2 second difference - a bit more that 54 mph!
ReplyDeletewhat a funny fake... -.-
ReplyDeleteTime dilation is only BARELY seen when a watch (accurate to within 0.00000001 of a second) is taken into space and measured against a watch with a velocity of zero. The other watch does not need to be stationary, and even when the watch is travelling through space at over 50,000km/h there is still not a significant difference, since it is in exponential comparison to the upper limit of speed (the speed of light, 3x10^8m/s).
ReplyDeleteThis video is such a lame fake, 55 miles per hour for 20 minutes won't make a shred of difference to stopwatches accurate to 0.01 of a second. Just check the formula yourself and try it.
So, if "time dilation" is a real, proven phenomenon, then in theory would an astronaut traveling at near light speed around in space for 30-40 years, return to earth and be "younger" than someone who was born at the exact same time?
ReplyDeleteJust look at the guys hand when he start the car. Isn't that a weird way to turn a car on?
ReplyDeletei have this strange problem with watches they slow down when i put em on !!??? only clock type ones thought !! this has been happening to me for years !!! can anyone tell me why ??? its got me f*#k"ed as to why???
ReplyDeleteWhen you look at the watch on the kitchen table when he leaves, and the other at the same time, they are not two seconds apart.
ReplyDeleteHowever, we didnt see him drive for 24 mins, so we can't trust that he didnt stop one watch for two seconds.
Lame fake.