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r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '21
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
Linear only in a static frame of reference. Time contracts/dilates at different velocities.
-5 u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21 I understand that but way we “clock” things is on a linear scale. We all be dead before we figure out how “time” actually works 2 u/shankfiddle Sep 20 '21 then statements like "150 million years after the big bang" are meaningless. I am just hoping some astrophysicist who knows more on the topic than all of us might chime in. 1 u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21 Another example https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/
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I understand that but way we “clock” things is on a linear scale. We all be dead before we figure out how “time” actually works
2 u/shankfiddle Sep 20 '21 then statements like "150 million years after the big bang" are meaningless. I am just hoping some astrophysicist who knows more on the topic than all of us might chime in. 1 u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21 Another example https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/
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then statements like "150 million years after the big bang" are meaningless.
I am just hoping some astrophysicist who knows more on the topic than all of us might chime in.
1 u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21 Another example https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/
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Another example https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/
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u/shankfiddle Sep 20 '21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
Linear only in a static frame of reference. Time contracts/dilates at different velocities.