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Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
One of the effects of traveling at high speeds is slowing down of clocks. I can understand gravity time dilation effect but not how would velocity affect clock speeds. How correct it is, if I say that higher the speed, more object travels through space dimension therefore less it travels through time dimension; therefore slowing down of time?
Time dilation explains why two working clocks will report different times after different accelerations. For example, time goes slower at the ISS, lagging approximately 0.01 seconds for every 12 Earth months passed. For GPS satellites to work, they must adjust for similar bending of spacetime to coordinate properly with systems on Earth. [2]
The closer the clock is to the source of gravitation, the slower time passes; the farther away the clock is from gravity, the faster time will pass. (We can save the details of that explanation...
At very high velocity, time is dilated with respect to an observer. The speed of light remains constant but since the distance that the light must travel increases, the time that it takes for it to travel from say a point A to a point B is longer than if it were stationary relative to the observer. Share. Cite.
Today in physics class, we learned about the theory of relativity and how it relates to time dilation. We were given the example of two photon clocks- one stationary relative to the Earth, and the other on a rocket going at a very high velocity relative to the Earth.
Why does time slow down as you approach the speed of light? Find out why in this article featuring Einstein, space travel, light clocks and more.
Why does time slow down when traveling at high speeds? According to Einstein's theory of relativity, time dilation occurs when an object moves at high speeds. This is because the faster an object moves, the more energy it has, and the more energy it has, the more it bends the fabric of space-time.
This is why the flow of time at point B turns out to be slower than at point A (recall how, due to gravity, the object falls faster at point B than point A). This programmable graphic limns the triangular motion of the photon and consequently the delay in the flow of time brilliantly.
In physics, time travel is closely linked to Einstein’s theory of relativity, which allows motion in space to actually alter the flow of time. This effect is known as time dilation and was one of the earliest predictions of relativity.