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Started by Legend, Sep 02, 2014, 07:17 PM

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Question: So if time basically stops when you are traveling at the speed of light, would that essentially mean that if you went back to earth after say 20 days of space travel for you would time on earth be farther ahead in time than you would think?  So that 20 days to you was say 6 months on earth?  THIS STUFF HURTS MY BRAIN!!


Yes, most likely.

Time dilation is weird.

I personally don't believe it's understood enough to definitively state things like that.


Say we have two objects in deep space. The difference in speed between the two is .9 the speed of light, or just really really fast.

Which object is the one experiencing time dilation, and which is the object no experiencing it?