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From: andrew@alberta.UUCP (Andrew Folkins)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Unified Field Theory - Time dilation
Message-ID: <712@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 13:00:22 EST
Article-I.D.: alberta.712
Posted: Fri Nov  1 13:00:22 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:09:08 EST
References: <1144@decwrl.UUCP> <10847@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: andrew@pembina.UUCP (Andrew Folkins)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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Summary: 

In article <10847@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
 
>If I'm right on the relativistic time differentiation, can anyone tell me how
>to actually calculate the difference???

Hmm, it's been a while since I took that physics course, but here goes . . .
 
Given an observer at rest (time interval To), and an object (time interval t)
travelling with a velocity v, the amount of time dilation for the object is 
given by the Lorentz transformation (c = speed of light ) : 
 
                                 2   2 
            t  =  To / sqrt(1 - v / c )
 
This gives time dilations of : 
 
               v/c          t
 
              0.00         1.00         ( That seems right )
              0.000322     1.000000056  ( 100 km/h = 61 mph )
              0.50         1.15
              0.90         2.29
              0.95         3.20
              0.99         7.09
              0.999       22.37
              0.9999      70.71
              0.99999    223.61
              0.999999   707.11
              1.0        core dumped - division by zero 
                         (which is why, according to today's physics, you can't
                         travel *at* the speed of light, though theoretically 
                         you can travel faster)
 
The time dilation for 100 km/h corresponds to about 1.75 seconds / year.
 
By replacing time by mass, the "mass dilation" can also be calculated.
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