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'Time-traveling' on an airplane: One of the cheapest tests of relativity
Forty years ago this October, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating bought tickets for themselves as well as four highly-precise Hewlett-Packard atomic clocks to take two commercial airplane trips around the world, one heading east and one heading west. Their mission? Test Einstein's theory. (www.news-daily.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Time flies when you're having fun!
I still remember my first long-haul west. Departed ORD at 1330, took a semi-polar route to PVG and landed there 15 hours later. It was late November.
I watched the sun set, rise, set again and rise again in that period - and it was on it's way down when we touched down. In the span of 15 flight hours.
Jetlag or not - That will mess with your head. LOL
Then to really make things fun - we landed in LAX 1 clock hour after we departed PVG... lol.
I watched the sun set, rise, set again and rise again in that period - and it was on it's way down when we touched down. In the span of 15 flight hours.
Jetlag or not - That will mess with your head. LOL
Then to really make things fun - we landed in LAX 1 clock hour after we departed PVG... lol.
People who live in high rises are also time traveling as the taller the building, the faster it moves relative to the ground.
That's why penthouses are so expensive...
That's why penthouses are so expensive...
I time travel every time I go to work. Flying the 737 instantly transports you to the 1960s!
Very ecological !
sitting in one's chair, you are still traveling at the speed of light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au0QJYISe4c