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Started by Eliot Coweye
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:07
Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: Eliot Coweye
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:07
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:07
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According to Einstein, runners are moving faster than lazy people lying on their couches and therefore they are aging slower. That means that all runners must be young and beautiful while their non-running friends are old and toothless. Is that true?
Re: Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: Charlie Pendejo
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:10
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:10
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Eliot Coweye wrote: > According to Einstein, runners are moving faster than lazy people lying > on their couches and therefore they are aging slower. Tell that to Pam Reed.
Re: Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: TheBillRodgers
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:15
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:15
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On 18 Nov 2005 18:07:02 -0800, "Eliot Coweye" <cia_deviator@lycos.com> wrote: >Is that true? Yes.
Re: Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: TheBillRodgers
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:16
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:16
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>Eliot Coweye wrote: >> According to Einstein, runners are moving faster than lazy people lying >> on their couches and therefore they are aging slower. > Except Bendaho, he's just a chico.
Re: Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: gty
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:12
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:12
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running is stress so it is aging you faster. the theory of relativity prolly will give you an extra millionth of second to your life span.
Re: Running and the theory of relativity ...
Author: Craig Pennington
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:13
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:13
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Quoth Eliot Coweye <cia_deviator@lycos.com>:
> According to Einstein, runners are moving faster than lazy people lying
> on their couches and therefore they are aging slower.
> That means that all runners must be young and beautiful while their
> non-running friends are old and toothless.
> Is that true?
Yes. The concept is called time dilation. Assume that an average runner
moves for one year at 1 km/h relative to his sedentary neighbor (just a
guess, accounting for most of the time being spent not running by either
the runner or the sedentary neighbor.) Now, since the formula for time
dilation is:
Tr = Ts * (1-((V^2)/(c^2)))^-2
Where Ts is the time that has passed for the sedentary neighbor
(apprximately 1 year, but exactly 8.7660000000 * 10^3 hours) Tr is the
time that has passed for the runner, V is the velocity of the runner
relative to the sedentary neighbor (1.0000000000 km/h,) and c is the
constant speed of light in a vacuum (1.0792528488*10^12 km/h).
Now these assumptions put any effect well beyond the precision of our
measured speed of light, but lets pretend they don't. Then:
Tr = Ts * (1-(4.2926313891*10^-15))
Indicating that our runner has used time dilation to cheat the clock of
1.3546514432 * 10^-17 seconds.
Cheers,
Craig
--
Corollary to Clarke's Third Law:
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently
advanced.
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