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Originally Posted by samncheese
Part if the problem is that the equation for the speed of light has a variable in it, time is not a constant there for our calculation for the speed of light varies. Light is said to travel at some 186 thousand miles per sec. But what is a second? If I speed upand go faster, a second appears the same to me, but to someone traveling slower a second is shorter.
this applies to the study of all forms of energy. As long as we are traveling with the planet the changes in time are hard to measure, we would have to remove ourselves from the earth to really observe the changes going on. I think I got that right and I hope you get the idea...
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yeah that's all about special relativity...the further you are away from the earth, the 'faster' things will seem to be going when you observe earth. because when you leave the atmosphere and are dead still in space, you're no longer rotating on earth and that is true stillness. astronauts are looking into the future by a few seconds i believe when they look down from orbit.