I have a question regarding time dilation that I thought of last night listening to an audiobook, Project Hail Mary. I am an amateur astrophotographer, and marvel at the distance to deep-space objects ...
The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...
We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...
Time isn’t this fixed universal thing that works the same everywhere, and Mars is a brilliant example of how location in space actually affects how fast time passes. A clock on Mars would literally ...