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If you wave one arm around in circles, but keep the other still, does it mean the first arm is... younger, or something?

And how can your arm remain attached to your body, even though you've just moved it in time!? Wouldn't it disappear into the future or something?

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  • Asked by JDWLB
  • on 2010-04-05 22:40:27
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translatrix says:

I'd like to meet someone able to move their arms with a speed close to the speed of light! I bet we can't even beat the speed of sound.

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posted on 2010-04-08 07:08:46 | Report abuse

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petethebloke says:

That's not really the point, though, is it?

Everyone who has studied or read about relativity struggles with these problems. (I challenge anyone to disagree with that!)

In theory, the minutest difference in speed will result in a change to the time-frame. Likewise, my head is normally further from the centre of the earth than my feet are - so should my head be younger than my toes due to gravitational differences?

In practice, of course, these are immeasurable differences and if my head is connected to my toes in the past, it's not going to change the fact that my head only experiences my toes in the past anyway.

I hope you get some better answers than these :)

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posted on 2010-04-08 12:22:52 | Report abuse


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aturnb says:

The time discrepancies between the various parts of your body would be of the order of 10 to the power -16 of a second.

or 0.0000000000000001 seconds.

To all intents and purposes the difference is zero.

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posted on 2010-07-30 20:05:01 | Report abuse


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