Time is it moving slower than it was in the young universe?

Hi Xris,

I feel, sometimes, that my arguments are irritating to you. I don't intend to avoid your questions. My outlook is simply too broad to easily define.

This is the most polite and adult-based post you have sent me for a while, and I really appreciate it Xris.
I gripe not, Xris. But I instantly perceive frustration, revealing itself, in all its many shapes and sizes.

And all I have Xris, is my opinion - I cannot prove a tot.

Sorry!

Mark...

Wait if time as we know it slowed down how would we know because we must slow down too?
So it would once again seem unchanged?

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as in how do we observe this?

Wait if time as we know it slowed down how would we know because we must slow down too?
So it would once again seem unchanged?

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as in how do we observe this?

Space travelers will age quicker relatively to their relatives left at home, if they experience negative gravity.

Hi Xris,

I'm not disputing your argument here, only posing a question.

Are you saying you believe- that if we live on the moon, we'll live longer?

And, I agree that the watch in question will function differently, but it is a mechanical appliance, and having physical properties, must conform to relative gravitational forces. It is though, (ONLY), a mechanical indicator. Not time itself.

Thank you, and journey well...

Mark...

Space travelers will age quicker relatively to their relatives left at home, if they experience negative gravity.

In order to experience negative gravity in space, you must first experience gravity.

Im sorry but you have lost me. I was attempting to exaggerate the fact that time is affected by gravity.

I was trying to understand what you meant by "negative gravity".
Or do you mean "less gravity than on Earth"?

I think space travellers dont experience any gravity or none of consequence, thats why they float around in their capsules, surely.

Space travelers will age quicker relatively to their relatives left at home, if they experience negative gravity.

Yep, which brings us back to my original point about your previous statement:-



In the above case, what is "negative gravity"? Or, how can a "Space traveller" experience negative gravity?

So what dont you understand. What would you call experience zero gravity in space flight? Your not being pedantic are you?

The problem is that you cannot go faster than the speed of cheese!

You would not notice the difference.

If you went to the moon with watch it would actually show the time as moving faster than an identical one on earth. Both those on the earth or those on the moon would not notice the change as a personal experience. Gravity effects the rate of change and we record change by measuring the time. Time and gravity are inexplicable linked by gravities effect on events. Gravity being one of the weakest forces has more to say than it would ever admit to.

Space travelers will age quicker relatively to their relatives left at home, if they experience negative gravity.

Hi xris,

You were wrong about space travelers, they would age slower in the high gravity field of their very fast spaceship, compared to people on earth with the much lower gravity field of planet earth

Hi Alan I think you misread my post.
My space travellers experienced zero gravity and were traveling at a reasonable speed. So I think they aged quicker in respect to their earthling relatives. Thanks xris..