So, here’s the scenario: In the movie Interstellar, they’re on Miller’s planet where time dilation is totally messing with their clocks. But hold up – won’t their bodies still age at the same rate?! 🤔
After my mind was thoroughly blown watching this film, I just had to dive deeper into the science behind it all. I mean, how crazy is it that time can be so wonky depending on where you are in the universe? 🤯
I’ve tried watching some YouTube videos to wrap my head around it, but I’m still left wondering… Will their bodies really age differently even with all this time dilation shenanigans going on? 🤔
So, I’m turning to you for answers! Help me out and explain it in a way that even a space cadet like me can understand. Let’s unravel this mystery together! 💫
And hey, don’t leave me hanging – vote in the poll below if you’re just as curious as I am! ⏳👀
🚀 Poll: Do you think their bodies age differently on Miller’s planet despite time dilation? A) Yes, definitely B) Hmm, I’m not so sure 🤔✨
No, their body would age according to the dilation. Think of your aging body as just a fancy kind of clock that shows time by aging. The same forces that make the clock tick differently make your body age differently.
Time dilation isn’t subjective. It’s actually time moving slower. So their bodies would age at the rate that time passes on the planet.
Time is basically personal to the individual so if you wear a watch and 1 second ticks on your watch 1 second has passed for you and you age 1 second.
Nah your body ages in accordance with the local flow of time. In the famous “Twin Paradox”, I could send my twin sister out on a rocket ship going half the speed of light. She goes out for a year and comes back after another year, as she measures it. Meanwhile, back home, I’ve aged more than two years. We are no longer the same age.
No, you’re still making the incorrect (but *completely reasonable* ) assumption that there is some single metaphorical clock in the universe keeping track of what time it is right now. The revolutionary breakthrough of Special Relativity was that there is no actual universal “Now” in existence and no universal agreement about how fast time passes among all observers.
Isn’t it just relativity just like someone on a train passing by looks like they are moving but if you are in the train they look still. Because you are moving at the same speed and direction as they are?
That isn’t the actual issue of the time dilation scene.
All biological processes rely on complex chemical reactions within cells. With time dilation, these reactions would occur at a slower rate. This could potentially affect everything from nerve impulses to metabolism. Our perception of time relies on the firing of neurons in the brain. If time itself slowed down, our perception of it would likely follow suit. Things might seem to move in slow motion, and our reaction times would be significantly delayed. Time dilation would also likely lead to slower thought processes, impaired memory, and difficulty concentrating as our electrical signals begin to fire more slowly. – The scary part is that time dilation could lead to a slower heart rate and breathing, potentially impacting oxygen delivery and overall function. Aka time could kill us essentially as it worked against everything our body is used too.
The magnitude of these effects would depend heavily on the strength of the time dilation. At very weak levels, the changes might be negligible. Also, our body has a remarkable ability to adapt to changing environments. It’s possible that some biological processes could adjust fast enough to the slower time, mitigating some of the effects.
With the magnitude of time dilation experienced in the movie, they’d probably have had a heart attack on entry before they could even understand that they fucked up. lol
The faster you move through space the slower you move through time, relative to someone else’s movement through Time.
If I’m moving at 50% of the speed of light I’m only experiencing half as much time as you are.
I at a very fundamental level gravity is just an acceleration toward the center of mass.
The space being affected by the gravitational effect around a black hole is moving faster than the space outside the gravitational effects of black hole.
So for anyone inside the gravitational effects of a black hole they would appear to be moving slower to anyone outside the gravitational effects of a black hole, while for everyone within the gravitational effects of black hole everyone outside the gravitational effects will black hole, seem to be speeding up.
But because of relativity the passage of time always feels the same relative to you. The only way you can tell the difference is by slowing down to the relative movement of somebody outside the black hole.
That’s why time on the Sun moves slower than time on the Earth and time on Earth moves slower than time in empty space.
No cause it’s Matt Damon and Emilio Estevez
The nasa x-43 is the fastest aircraft topping out at 7366 mph. If you flew that for like an hour would that be fast enough to become even .1 of a second younger than someone who was standing on the ground?
Time dilation in the real universe is more like a matter of seconds or partial seconds.
It’s not decades.
They do age at the same rate, relative to their own flow of time. Their time is flowing much slower than time on Earth. If you were to view them from Earth’s frame of reference, they would be going really really slow. Like how the Flash sees people when he is moving speed force fast.
They where only there for like 7 hours
No. The time dilation affects everything. It slows down aging for the same reason it slows down thinking and acting. It slows down clocks, it even slows down nuclear decay. It’s literally time itself going slower, along with *everything* in it.
There’s a lot of stupid scientifically inaccurate bullshit in Interstellar, but not that part.
Time is a human concept that I don’t think we fully understand yet. By current laws of physics your body should age at the rate where you are. Realistically we don’t really know.
Imagine two elevators. One moves faster and one moves slower. That’s not a mental experience that’s reality. Their bodies are physically moving through space at different speeds.
Now imagine if those elevators don’t just affect space but time too. Their bodies now move through time at different rates.
Yes, the simple principle is “a moving clock runs slow, and the closer a clock is to a source of gravity, the slower it runs”.
It’s Einstein’s generally relativity – gravity can bend space-time.
So when Cooper & Brand are on the water planet, they come back to the guy in orbit on the ship, who has aged “years” in the “minutes” (their minutes) they have been on the surface.