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Time-Warping Occurs in Daily Life
Time dilation arises in two situations. In one case, time appears to move slower the closer you are to a massive object, such as the Earth. So a person hovering in a hot-air balloon ages faster than someone standing below. Time also ticks by faster for someone at rest relative to someone moving.
Previous experiments with rockets and airplanes have demonstrated these odd aspects of general and special relativity. Now advances in laser technology and the field of quantum information science have allowed researchers to demonstrate Einstein’s theories at much more ordinary scales.
The researchers used two optical atomic clocks sitting atop steel tables in neighboring labs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. Each clock has an electrically charged aluminum atom that vibrates between two energy levels more than a million billion times per second. A 75-meter-long optical cable connects the clocks, which allows the team to compare the instruments’ timekeeping.
In the first experiment, the researchers used a hydraulic jack to raise one of the tables about a foot. Sure enough, the lower clock ran slower than the elevated one — at the rate of a 90-billionth of a second in 79 years. In a second experiment the team applied an electric field to one clock, sending the aluminum ion moving back and forth. As predicted, the moving clock ran slower than the clock that was at rest.
Of course scientists are well aware of these relativistic effects. The clocks on GPS devices are also affected by relativity, and appropriate adjustments are made to keep them working properly.
The experiments have more implications for precision instrumentation than they do for relativity. But they are a nice reminder that relativity is always at hand. People tend to just ignore relativistic effects, but relativistic effects are everywhere. Every day, people are moving; they are doing things like climbing stairs. It’s interesting to think about — are frequent flyers getting younger [because they move so much] or aging faster [because they spend so much time in the air]?
• Source: Wired Science • See also: 80beats
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Time-Warping Occurs in Daily Life
Time dilation arises in two situations. In one case, time appears to move slower the closer you are to a massive object, such as the Earth. So a person hovering in a hot-air balloon ages faster than someone standing below. Time also ticks by faster for someone at rest relative to someone moving.
Previous experiments with rockets and airplanes have demonstrated these odd aspects of general and special relativity. Now advances in laser technology and the field of quantum information science have allowed researchers to demonstrate Einstein’s theories at much more ordinary scales.
The researchers used two optical atomic clocks sitting atop steel tables in neighboring labs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. Each clock has an electrically charged aluminum atom that vibrates between two energy levels more than a million billion times per second. A 75-meter-long optical cable connects the clocks, which allows the team to compare the instruments’ timekeeping.
In the first experiment, the researchers used a hydraulic jack to raise one of the tables about a foot. Sure enough, the lower clock ran slower than the elevated one — at the rate of a 90-billionth of a second in 79 years. In a second experiment the team applied an electric field to one clock, sending the aluminum ion moving back and forth. As predicted, the moving clock ran slower than the clock that was at rest.
Of course scientists are well aware of these relativistic effects. The clocks on GPS devices are also affected by relativity, and appropriate adjustments are made to keep them working properly.
The experiments have more implications for precision instrumentation than they do for relativity. But they are a nice reminder that relativity is always at hand. People tend to just ignore relativistic effects, but relativistic effects are everywhere. Every day, people are moving; they are doing things like climbing stairs. It’s interesting to think about — are frequent flyers getting younger [because they move so much] or aging faster [because they spend so much time in the air]?
• Source: Wired Science • See also: 80beats
BAI GAIS!
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Pinoy Tumblr.: Batang 90's ka pag nakarelate ka dito :D
Isa-isahin nyo to at pag natawa kayo, nangiti, may naalala, syurbol akong batang 90’s ka!
1. Masaya ka kapag naglalaro ka ng Tex at Pog. Kadalasan ang design dito ay yung mga palabas sa TV, mga drama o kaya anime, may dialogue pa.
2. May comics pa ang bazooka. Kahit di mo maintindihan yung…
Sushi Etiquette
I did not know all of these.
The BeetleCam Project
I WANT!!!!!
So i work for Canon. And these SLR cameras and lenses are going to be thrown away cos they have no boxes LOL fkn idiots
LOL and NO i wont be able to give them out? Canon is a huge international company, so throwing away these cameras won’t mean anything to them. And another reason why they wont be giving them away is because they dont want to waste their time looking for people to give them too. the quickest and easiest way to get rid of them is just to smash them and throw them away lol.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
PUTANGENANG WTF?????????????????
My dSLRs out for repair, and they’re just going to throw these away??? Why don’t they just use these as service units. Hmmp
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now that’s a great idea :))
Interesting facts about… Nintendo!
