{"id":9938,"date":"2010-09-24T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2010-09-24T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T22:34:37","slug":"einstein-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/einstein-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein was right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s taken a century but scientists have finally prove that Albert Einstein was right – time really does past more quickly if you stand on a step ladder.<\/p>\n

In a bizarre experiment using the most accurate atomic clocks ever invented, researchers showed that clocks run faster if they are raised by just 12 inches.<\/p>\n

However, anyone hoping that a lifetime living in a basement is the secret to longevity will be disappointed.<\/p>\n

The effect is so small that it would add just 90 billionths of a second to a 79 year life span.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary experiment – published today in the respected journal Science – demonstrates one of the strangest consequences of Einstein’s theories of relativity.<\/p>\n

Einstein’s work famously showed that time is relative.\u00a0 In 1907 his General Theory of Relativity showed that clocks run more quickly at higher altitudes because they experience a weaker gravitational force than clocks on the surface of the Earth.<\/p>\n

It also means that your head ages more quickly than your feet, that people living on the top floor of a tower block age more quickly than those on the first floor – and that time passes more slowly for people living at sea level than it does for those on mountains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe not: my head is about 25 but my feet and the rest of me are\u2026. well, older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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