Experts found that time really does run more quickly the higher you are - just as Einstein predicted, The Independent reported Tuesday.
They monitored two atomic clocks positioned just a foot apart in height above sea level.
Einstein had proposed 100 years ago in his theory of relativity that time and space are not as constant as everyday life would suggest.
He suggested that the only true constant, the speed of light, meant that time can run faster or slower depending on how high you are, and how fast you are travelling.
James Chin-Wen Chou and his colleagues from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, conducted the study.
"These precise clocks reveal the effects of gravitational pull, so if we position one clock closer to a planet, you also increase the gravitational pull and time actually runs slower than for another, similar clock positioned higher up," Chou said.
"No one has seen such effects before with clocks which is why we wanted to see if these effects are there. We would say our results agree with Einstein's theory - we weren't expecting any discrepancies and we didn't find any," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
When we lived at sea level in New Orleans we knew very few healthy octogenarians. Here in Colorado, we are surrounded with many who are still hiking and climbing mountains into their late eighties. There are many factors that enter into life span and I think that altitude is an extremely minor factor
ReplyDeleteThe higher you live the faster the time goes, relative to the people who live lower. It is still the theory of relativity.
ReplyDeleteIt could add up to mere fractions of a second in a lifetime.
When you live higher you will live shorter, relative to the people who live lower. The theory is the theory of relativity.
ReplyDeleteThe person who lives higher will not notice to have less time, he will have equal time as the one who lives lower.
However living on the seashore has proved to increase your lifespan.