Friday, April 17, 2009

right ho! daylight saving and the almost possibility of living slower than everyone else

hoggy is right about everything she said.

daylight saving is when at certain times of the year (october sometime and march sometime) you change your clock to not actually make the day longer but to mean that our times fit better with when the sun is up. for example when we change TO daylight savings we put our clocks forward an hour so that 7 feels like 6 even though we call it 7. this means that since the sun gets up really early in summer we are also getting up earlier. but instead of everyone just getting up at say 6 instead of 7 and school starting at 7:30 instead of at 8:30 we just put our clocks forwards so that we do this anyway. if that makes sense. and off daylight savings is the opposite.

now for that almost possibility of actually living slower
see einstein says that not only is matter relative but so is time (special theory of relativity). according to einstein time actually slows DOWN when you get to the speed of light (300 000 km/second). matter warps as well but that's beside the point. they have done tests to prove this. they got two atomic clocks (stupidly accurate clocks) and set them to exactly the same time. then they put one on a ridiculously fast plane. then they flew the plane and the atomic clock around the world very fast for quite a while. then they landed and compared the times the clocks said and the one that had been on the plane was minutely slower than the one that hadn't. remember we're dealing with stupidly accurate clocks. they were EXACTLY the SAME before they took off and one was ever so slightly SLOW when it landed.

so in answer to your question huihui: yes time did slow down for you but only very very very very (x 100) minutely.

1 comment:

Lord of the Palmtrees said...

ho hum...
things are beginning to make sense for hui, ty!! and i are back. do yall wanna go to the easter show on monday cuz hannah asked me to go (and i think chelyne, amiraman, joel aswell) and she said i can invite whoever. come join us and we shall have many funs