Cyberpolitics: The Practicallitys in Relation to Time Travel.
The following question was taken from the lecture notes Re: RELATIVITY & TWINS IN SPACE THEORY:
"Suppose you were one of a set of twins and you got into a super-fast rocket and went off into space, and came back ten earth years later. If you traveled at close to the speed of light, what would have been ten earth years for earth would only have been about five earth years for you. So when you get back you will have aged less. You would be five years younger than your twin. This is relativity at its best (and simplest). It is only relative to your twin that you will live longer, by your own frame of reference you still will not live any longer. "
I have a twin sister so this theory interested me a great deal. It very much simplfied idea of relativity and is an easy way to explain it. But you must consider the variables of diet etc to factor in any anti-ageing properties if you want to really be pedantic. Also if I was the 'earth twin' (which i would definitely volenteer to be as the idea of space travel does not appeal to me in the slightest) I would most certainly be condsidering botox or some sort of anti-ageing regime just to fool everyone. Also, i would rather spend 10 years ageing on earth, enjoying my life as apposed to spending a lonely age-free decade in the solitudes of space...
I also understand this repsonse has absolutley no accademic merrit whatsoever...
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