misterd on 15 January 2008
| supermariogalaxy said: Off Topic: What do you guys think about the theory of relativity? (discovered by Albert Einstein) You know, that everything ages realtive to Earth...Do you think we might be actually able to send 1 twin light years away from Earth and keep one on Earth to find that the one in space has hardly aged after 10 years????????? |
It's not relative to Earth - it's relative to, well, everything, and gravity and velocity more specifically. AFAIK there's been a good deal of evidence using atomic clocks that confirm that concept.
The wild idea is the notion that once you accelerate past the speed of light (if you could), you could travel through time freely, but be stuck moving in one direction in space (essentially reversing our experiences with time and space).
