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Time dilation in a tall building

Time slows down the faster you travel. Living atop a tall building makes you age slower because you're travelling faster as the Earth spins. However, being further from the gravity well of the planet makes time move faster. Granted the changes in time are microscopic but which is the greater effect? Would you age fractionally slower or fractionally faster atop Burj Dubai relative to someone at ground level.

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Byrden says:

The question is incompletely posed.

"the faster you travel" is a meaningless phrase unless a frame of reference is defined; indeed, the absence of a universal frame, and the invalidity of that phrase, is the core concept of the Relativity theory.

Also, the rotational speed of the Earth's surface (relative to the center) depends on latitude.

Taking Dubai as a sample location, the slowdown is about 3 times as great as the speedup.

David

 

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