Questions tagged [time-dilation]
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Why we can't see our Sun as it was a few years ago?
Our Sun is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy. So many years ago, it was at a different location from where it is now.
In addition, we are observing stars and exoplanets as they were many ...
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What reference frame do age-of-the-universe calculations assume?
I'm thinking, in particular, about general relativity. When we speak, for example, of neutrino decoupling, what do we mean when we say this happened in the first second after the Big Bang? Do we mean ...
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Could a star closely orbit a black hole long enough for the star to have lost 0.5B+ years to time dilation?
I was wondering how stable a close star-black hole system could plausibly be, and thus how much time a star could plausibly miss out on (from an outside observer's perspective) due to being in an ...
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Whats the time dilation difference between the earths reference and (near) the milky way galaxy central black hole? [duplicate]
How much difference in time is there between our time of reference and very near the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
I was trying to get answer in terms of something like "1 year in here ...
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Does Gravitational Time Dilation stack on top of Time Dilation caused by Velocity?
Using 1 CM from the Event Horizon of Super Massive Black Hole, SGR A, as the reference point. The particles within the accretion disk are traveling at extreme high speeds. Assume this speed increases ...
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Cosmological redshift - How do we know it's not caused by the observer's time dilation?
Instead of cosmological redshift being caused by the metric expansion of space, why couldn't cosmological redshift be caused by our perspective moving faster in time? Said another way, if the ...
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How does time dilation from a large body fall off? [closed]
A magnetic fields generally fall off as 1 / r^3 rather than 1 / r^2 for gravity.
How does time dilation fall off from a large body?
Where would the gravity and magnetic field line be in this chart ...
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If I could see from a Gravitational-Time dilated place to somewhere far which is not dilated, would I see fast moving people?
Gravitational time dilation like the one shown in the movie Interstellar, causes time to move slowly for someone within the high gravity reference frame. Now let's say that from such a place, I was ...
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Universe is expanding, why doesn't time expand with it?
Reading this response When the universe expands does it create new space, matter, or something else? I understand Universe is not expanding like if it is stretching its space, but it is actually ...
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Does time dilation at the event horizon prevent us from seeing any changes?
If gravity is so strong at event horizon as we assume, and thus time dilation makes time infinitely slow for us, the distant observers, how could we ever observe any events ocurring over time? Wouldn'...
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Can anyone one show how speeds greater than c cause a paradox on a space time diagram?
So according to Relativity, time moves at different rates for different observers, and distant observers will actually disagree on the order of events. Now from what I gather this gets sorted out for ...
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What is this “time travel” these popular blogs refer to?
I am getting confused by some "popular science" about time travel, such as
or "Time Travel Is Real. Here Are the People and Spacecraft Who Have Done It":
It is indeed an interesting property of ...
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How to convert factors of time dilation into something relatable? [duplicate]
On this post,
Time according to the gravity of Sagittarius A?
They found the factor of time on the varying distances from the SMBH, I am curious on how to turn those factors into relatable terms ...
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Does time dilation increase within overlapping gravitational fields?
If a spaceship was to travel to the barycenter of a binary star (the stars having identical size and mass) and come to a stop there, would the people on board this spaceship find that time is moving ...
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Black-hole becoming a star again - follow-up question [closed]
Some questions have been posed about black holes becoming stars again once they attract enough hydrogen/atomic matter from another star. Some answers were a forceful NO. Never. However - let's ponder ...
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What if one teleportes to a star that is some light years away? [closed]
When we see a star from the earth that is 5 light years away, we are essentially looking at light emitted from the star 5 years ago. What if you were to instantly reach near the star, either by ...
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What would a black hole merger look like?
Ship 1 is out side the black hole. Ship 2 is nearing a black hole. To ship 1 it would appear that ship 2 would be moving slower to the point it would seem like ship 2 stopped moving the closer to the ...
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Gravitational eddies across the galaxy?
I read about natural gravitational eddies that travel in a wave that black holes have. They also have a strong magnetic field. Does those eddies follow magnetic field lines of the rotating black hole? ...
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If you looked at Earth while travelling at relativistic speeds, will you see sped-up activities?
Suppose you traveled off Earth and back at relativistic speeds, so that when you come back much longer time elapsed on Earth than you experienced. Suppose you had an excellent telescope through which ...
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How do I imagine time difference?
I could never understand how in Interstellar, they say our every hour spent on the planet is equal to 7 years on Earth and when he returns back to her daughter, the father is older than her daughter. ...
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Could a closely orbiting pulsar be used to study a black hole?
If we were to locate a pulsar in a close elliptical orbit around a black hole, could this reveal significant information about the black hole (e.g. time dilation / structure)? Could this even tell us ...
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How long would a near-light-speed trip to proxima centauri take from the traveler's and the earth-observer's perspectives?
Lets say the spaceship is traveling at .9c to Proxima Centauri. How long does this trip take from the observational standpoint of the passenger vs. the observer from Earth?
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Will biological process be disrupted under strong gravitational time dilation?
This question is raised by someone I've discussed with, after watching the movie "Interstellar", in which a clip showing Cooper and Amelia landing on Miller's planet near a super-massive blackhole and ...
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What effect does time dilation have on bodies orbiting close to Black Holes?
As far as my (somewhat basic) knowledge of astrophysics goes in general the closer to a star your orbit gets smaller (because you travel less distance) and faster (because you're deeper in the gravity ...
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What is the oldest thing?
I'm well aware of the celestial bodies considered as the oldest visible in our galaxy.
My question might feel a bit odd: What is the oldest thing in the universe? I am puzzled with this question as ...
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absolute speed of bodies as observed by a distant observer
What does a distant observer see if two masses with a given velocity are close enough to each other that time is dilated ?
Scenario (using 2 point masses for simplicities sake):
Mass a: 1,00E+030 kg
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What does the coordinate of time really mean?
The meaning of the $t$ which appears in space-time intervals or metrics in general relativity. I concluded that $t$ was just a mathematical thing which allows us to label the "space-time manifold" and ...
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How can a black hole ever form? [duplicate]
We know that an object falling to the black hole, as observed from an observer far away, will freeze as it gets closer and closer to the event horizon. So my question is how can a black hole form in ...
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Black hole darkness a result of gravity or temporal distortion?
Please correct me if I am wrong as I may have made some incorrect assumptions.
Okay so we know that at some stage of "nearness to a black hole", light is no longer reflected back at us from the black ...
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How long would it take to reach the edge of the reachable universe?
How long would it take to reach the current edge of the reachable portion of the universe, with the following bounds in mind:
We figure out a way build a space ship to provide a constant 1 G ...
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gravitational time dilation multiple sources
I wondered how time would be dilated for an object in the middle of 2 black holes, however
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation only provides a formula for one source of gravity
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How far into the future can we go by traveling close to a black hole?
If we sent someone on a path that passed as near as possible to a black hole without getting pulled in, how far into the future would they go due to time dilation? Let's assume the black hole is 5 ...
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When you travel fast around a black hole, do you experience high speed yourself?
When an object in the space comes close to a massive body (like a black hole or a neutron star), we see from Earth that its speed significantly increases while it is close to the body. As we know, ...
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How does time “add up” for observers outside of and travelers inside of a Krasnikov tube?
A ship travels 99% of c from Earth (leaving at Time A, say 2016) to Destination Star (arriving at Time B, say 2020, accounting for relativistic effects) to stretch the tube, leaves a buoy at ...
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View from inside the black hole
If an observer is falling toward a black hole with its face away from singularity then what will he observe after crossing the event horizon? The reason that why I am asking this question because as ...
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A camera and time dilation?
If I travelled near a black hole, my time would progress slower relative to someone on Earth. This is clear enough. However, what if we sent a probe with a camera to a black hole? When we watch the ...
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Is time itself speeding up universally?
Time moves more slowly near a mass than in relatively empty space. For example, I get that an observer would see someone falling into a black hole to appear to move more slowly and get "stuck" on the ...
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Does all of time exist and if so where is it?
I've recently learned about the theory of relativity and time. I'm trying to understand it more.
My (basic) understanding is that there is no distinction between past present and future and that ...
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Is the time lapse considered when estimating the age of the universe?
We say that our universe is 13.7 billion years ago. During the big bang, it doubled at least 90 times in trillionth of a second (as given here), and other topological statements.
The question is ...
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Age of the universe vs. its contents
A couple of decades ago I read an article (could have been either Astronomy, Space, or Science News) that suggested the contents of the universe may be older than the universe itself. Of course, that ...
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Is radiation from neutron stars delayed by time dilation?
I understand a neutron star to be the densest stuff that can exist without becoming a black hole, the densest thing which directly gives off radiation we can detect. At the event horizon of a black ...
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Time according to the gravity of Sagittarius A*?
This may be a really dumb question (I'm more of a Biologist than an Astronomer) so I apologize in advance for my little knowledge pertaining to Astronomy, but, if I'm not mistaken, time is effected by ...
