Has anyone ever been going along driving/walking or doing anything else and noticed that almost no time actually elapsed?\n\nI've heard of this happening and didn't know if it was actually true. \n\n(I.E. driving from one point to another .. normally a 40 min trip .. that ends up taking only about 20-25 min .. at the same speed)
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I was discussing this with a couple of friends of mine yesterday. One was saying that she was went for a shower at 2.55, when she finished (usually takes her 15Min's), she went into her room and the same clock read 4.30. My other mate was saying that one day around 3pm Neighbours came on, he thought this was a little odd because it isn't on until 5.25pm but he still decided to watch it, when it finished, he went off and made a sandwich then came back and it was 5.25pm and Neighbours came on again. When I told him that it's pre-shown at lunch time, he told me that he was working until 2.30pm. Weird huh! I do believe that "Time Skips" or Chronic Temporal Hysteresis's are totally feasible. :0)
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My favorite theory is that time is a river.  This takes into account einstiens' equations that have shown time moves at different speeds for different locations (as proven by measuring time in fast moving satellites and comparing it to time on Earth) and yet always moves forward.
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Minneapolis to Albert Lea (90 miles) on the interstate, in about 45 minutes, in a DeLorean. \n\nNo impact other than the trip back (at about 60) felt like I could get out and walk faster! But can you imagine what the ticket would have cost had I got caught?!\n\nThat was one FAST car!
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ya, that one has the same dimension as that of time.see how that eqn is derived.you find distance covered by 'n' seconds then distance covered by (n-1) seconds.subtract.and you get the eqn.... but see wat is the difference b/w the time n and n-1. it is one second..this is the one that appeared in the eqn and confused you.is it clear?
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well yeah... \nwell we dont have any definitive start or end point, so it's only relative to itself meaning that you can only measure a change in time, not how much of it you actually have. \nyour actual question is a little ambiguous, if this isnt what you meant, you can add some to the question,  are you looking for an explanation of how high velocities distort time or something, because I can explain that if you would like, just add it onto the question or make a new one or something.
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*sighs* Why can't people do any research on their own? Anyway... you are traveling through time right now, how else did you push those keys in sequence to form your question?\n\nI think that what you are attempting to refer to (lol I'm never gonna get a best answer replying like this) Is that as you travel faster and faster, closer and closer to the speed of light, time flow for you slows down, and the misconception of the public that if you go faster than light you will reverse time. WRONG!\n\nThat's not specifically what you asked though, so I will focus on teh misconceptions regarding the speed of light. First of all, accelerating mass to the speed of light is impossible as it would require an infinite amount of energy, so your question is meaningless. Second, since your question is meaningless tehre is nothing more to say except maybe a supporting and enlightening example. Third, I do not feel creative tonight so that example is gonna have to pass tis time, unless you email me and I will explain it better.\n\ndavid_lapierre@sbcglobal.net\n\nUnless this is just a school project, which I doubt since they are going donw the drain is sciences these days... you might wanna ask me a question, I can be very helpful when I know my time is not going to be wasted on a person who won't bother to take a few minutes to learn something... :-)
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I am almost always on time, but circumstances can arise that are beyond your control that cause you to be late. If you are habitually late, then I would say that it was rude. If you are early by more than about 5 minutes it is rude. If you find that you have arrived early, then wait in your car or drive around the block until it is the right time to arrive. =-)
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every day when i was younger and after i reached my mid forties it slowed to every other day or two in a row and rest two. now in my fifties it's about twice a week but sometimes more. the longer i wait between sessions the better it is, but my wife still got it after all these years so it's not easy to skip too many days. we've been married twenty-three years.
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This is how you solve it. Use dimmensional canellation, but you will have to do it twice and subtract the difference\n\nA. (5 miles/1)  *   (1 hr/55 mi)  * (60 min/1 hr)\n   =5.45 minutes\n \n   \nB. (5 miles/1)*  (1 hr/65 miles) * (60 min/1 hr)\n   =4.6 minutes\n    \nYou saved 1.2 minutes. Not much at all. Which is what they say, speeding only saved 2 or so minutes in a 15-20 minute trip. BUt it tears the bejesus out of your engine
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I think the way that God knows your choices is different than the way that you know them (or don't yet know them). I don't think time bears the same distinction on our reality as it does to God's.\n\nA very small portion of the journey is the end. The rest of it involves getting there. You aren't in a hurry to get to the end of your life, are you? You enjoy the ride. In the same way, you have your free will, you make your choices, you learn along the way.
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Depends on your perspective.  As you travel closer and closer to the speed of light, time for you will seem to be normal, but you will see it speed up for others who are stationary.\n\nIf you are the one who is stationary, time will seem normal to you, but it will slow down for the one traveling.\n\nAn example - your twin has just been chosen to go on an interstellar trip.  Thankfully you're telepathic and can communicate over any distance.  As she speeds up, you will notice that there are longer and longer times between her transmissions to you, even though she says she'd contacting you at the same time every day.  And when she returns to earth 50 years later, you find she's only aged 10 years! (Robert Heinlein wrote a great novel about just this scenario - "Time for the Stars").\n\nScientists have proven this amazing fact in many experiments. They've put an atomic clock on a fast jet and flown it around the world.  When they returned, the clocks had different times than those on the ground.  But not by much - the clocks were between 50 and 270 nanoseconds different than their stationary counterparts - that's 50 billionths of a second.  Not much - but 500 mph is pretty slow compared to the speed of light.\n\nAnother way this is used in everyday life is the GPS satellites.  This navigation system has to take relativistic effects into account in it's transmission signals in order to get the high accuracy it's capable of. Every GPS satellite has an atomic clock aboard.  Because of the speed of the satellites, a ground observer will see them ticking slower than real time, so the signals have to be adjusted.\n\nTo answer your question - if you traveled around the world at 700 mph for a week, you'd be a few thousandths of a second younger than your friends who stayed behind.
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The faster you travel, the more time slows down for you (the traveller) compared to a person not moving as fast as you.  *At* the speed of light, time slows to be infinitely long -- so your teacher's "example" is actually incorrect, because at the speed of light it would take you an infinitely long time to get to the moon (as mass increases as you approach the speed of light, you'd also be infinitely heavy -- what all that shows is that it's impossible for anything except light to travel at the speed of light).\n\nHis example would have been better if he had said you went to the moon at, say, 75% of the speed of light.  At that speed, time would pass slower for you and faster for the people on earth, so by the time you went there and back nearly everybody on the earth you knew would be dead.  It would only take a few seconds from YOUR point of view to make the trip to the moon, but in those few seconds from your perspective the people on the earth would have passed dozens or hundreds of years.\nThis is the essence of "relativity" : that time is relative to the observer based on his position and speed, and is not absolute.  It's been confirmed experimentally by flying extremely accurate clocks in airplanes and spacecraft at high speeds, and then bringing them back to earth and comparing them with a similarly accurate clock synchronized with the moving clock before takeoff.  It's real, but also can be confusing :)
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The land does not move beneath us.  What are you talking about - the revolution of the Earth on its axis?\n\nIf that is the case, please take note, as I have seen nobody answer this frequently asked question correctly.\n\nIf you turn round quickly on the spot, you'll soon get dizzy, even though no part of your body is moving much more than a few miles per hour.\n\nIf you drive around a traffic island at 60 mph, you will throw your passengers all over the place.\n\nIf you drive around the city loop at 60 mph, you will hardly notice any turning forces.\n\nSo, speed is not the critical factor in how turning affects you.  What affects you is the rate at which you are changing direction. \n\nWith the Earth taking 24 hours to turn once, at any point in time you are not changing direction hardly at all, and from minute to minute you are travelling in a straighter line than a draughtsperson could draw.  \n\nTravelling in a straight line at constant speed has no effect on you at all, even if it is 1 million mph.
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Imagine the average human life of about 70 years (hypothetically).\n\nMake a time line of that persons life of 70 years.  Just for giggles we will make the time line one meter long, for every year of this person's life.  So you have a time line that is 70 meters long.  \n\nLooks good, right.  70 years is almost three quarters of a century, which in perspective to us as humans, is a relatively long time.  \n\nImagine that somone could actually live for 7000 years.  Now, make a time line that is 7000 meters long for this second person.  This is our "extended time line".  \n\nThis 7000 Meter time line or 7 Kilometers is a rather larger distance in perspective to the first 70 meter line.\n\nNow imagine laying both lines down, parallel to each other in a clear open field somewhere and imagine looking down at the two lines from the sky.  \n\nOf course the shorter line is shorter, but compared to the longer line it will appear extremely small.  The small line may even appear to have ceased to exist when compared to the longer line.  \n\nDoes this help put in into perspective?\n\nKinda like having a single specific drop of water, going to the beach and dropping it into the ocean.  Now go find that specific drop of water that you released into the ocean.  It is still there, but compared to all of the other drops of water that make up the ocean, it is all but non-existent.
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Well, it is a fantastic concept! Also, even if this could happen, it would take billions, if not billions of years!\nAnother way is that who and why do we accept the time direction as we do now? Because it fits, us! Well, sometimes this concept is reversed! SO, time could go the other way or go faster or slower, but this only in certain moments, yet!
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Yes, it is very possible. If I had told people about my time travel experience, they would call me a retard. In year 2003 or 2004, I don't remember which year it was, I had kind of like the time travel experience reliving the same day. The same exact things happened to me in two straight days. It was the most weired experience I have ever had in my life. Yeah, reliving the same day.
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I was in the Air Force driving 1000 miles to go home for a month leave. While I was driving in the high mountains around Reno, I fell asleep. I was traveling about 85 mph. My truck veered off the highway. As soon as I felt the truck leave the highway, I woke up and found I was heading downward on the gravel part of the side of the highway. My truck seemed to be driving itself I was in shock. The steering wheel was moving under my hands. I can't describe it any better than this. As the truck moved back up to the highway, I pulled over and tried to calm down. It was a really frightening moment. What was even more frightening was just 1/4 mile more and the side of the highway no longer had gravel. There were large boulders. I still get chills thinking about it.\n\nTill the day I die, I know I was not the one driving my truck at that moment.\n\nbtw - I have had several other experiences where the circumstances involved other than human interaction. I guess I am just one of the few to have been fortunate enough to experience it.