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  2. Countdown - Wikipedia

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    The last ten seconds are usually counted down aloud "Ten seconds to liftoff. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." After a launch, most countdown clocks begin to show Mission Elapsed Time, which is typically shown as "T plus." The adjacent picture shows "+00:00:07", approximately seven seconds after liftoff.

  3. Time dilation - Wikipedia

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    where Δt is the time interval between two co-local events (i.e. happening at the same place) for an observer in some inertial frame (e.g. ticks on their clock), known as the proper time, Δt′ is the time interval between those same events, as measured by another observer, inertially moving with velocity v with respect to the former observer ...

  4. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    Time: The interval between two events present on the worldline of a single clock is called proper time, an important invariant of special relativity. As the origin of the muon at A and the encounter with Earth at D is on the muon's worldline, only a clock comoving with the muon and thus resting in S′ can indicate the proper time T′ 0 =AD .

  5. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...

  6. Gravitational time dilation - Wikipedia

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    To show that, one can apply Noether's theorem to a body that freely falls into the well from infinity. Then the time invariance of the metric implies conservation of the quantity g ( v , d t ) = v 0 / T 2 {\displaystyle g(v,dt)=v^{0}/T^{2}} , where v 0 {\displaystyle v^{0}} is the time component of the 4-velocity v {\displaystyle v} of the body.

  7. Twin paradox - Wikipedia

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    This is a different voyage than the one shown above, as both schemes take the same assumed total point-of-view time: T=12 (stay-at-home), resp τ=12 (ship), so the results of the calculated other-one's times must be different: τ=9.33 (ship), resp T=17.3 (stay at home). In the standard proper time formula

  8. Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia

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    In astrophysics and quantum physics a jiffy is, as defined by Edward R. Harrison, [13] the time it takes for light to travel one fermi, which is approximately the size of a nucleon. One fermi is 10 −15 m, so a jiffy is about 3 × 10 −24 s. It has also more informally been defined as "one light-foot", which is equal to approximately one ...

  9. Spacetime diagram - Wikipedia

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    A straight line connecting these two events is always the time axis of a possible observer for whom they happen at the same place. Two events which can be connected just with the speed of light are called lightlike. In principle a further dimension of space can be added to the Minkowski diagram leading to a three-dimensional representation.