Time Travel

Einstein's theroy explained time as dependent on motion and that time moves differently with a body in motion. It moves more slowly in fact. Basically, it says that if I move faster than the stuff around me that time for me moves slower.

Now, every year, twice a year with daylight saving shifts I set the clock in my car to match the radio of the phone or what ever clock I'm looking at when I set it. Invariably my clock in the car will creep up to 2 minutes 4 minutes faster than the radio or the led clocks on the road.

Seems to me that if he were right the clock in the car would be behind the others

Could be I'm thinking about it wrong. Am I proving Einstein right?

Am I a time traveler?

 

Clocks just aren't accurate enough for relativity to have a noticeable effect. I can't find my source but it's something like 10 million years of traveling at 60mph to offset a clock by 1 second due to relativity.

 

What he said. Although I do remember learning that there have been test of special relativity using airplanes and very sensitive clocks. In any case, yes you are a time traveler. You can and do always travel to the future, and if you had a way to reach speeds close to the speed of light you could travel almost as far as you wished into the future.

 

You're no more a time traveler than any other human being on the planet. You are, however, the owner of at least one inaccurate clock.

 

Keep driving man. Stay young.

 

But just remember, driving faster doesn't necessarily mean you'll live longer.

 

There's always a catch

 

Just what I need, an incentive to ride my motorcycle faster.

What they all said, you have to get pretty close to the speed of light before relativity has any significance.

 

I don't know...a fraction of a second a couple times a day over a few months.....hmmm

by the way put your head down, lean into the wind and just go man

Also, it's not a busted clock, this has always happened every car I have owned. Unless it's just me and time bends around me for some reason. Here's what I'll do, set the clock, pickk out a stationary clock at random and measure over time to see if there is a real difference or an imagined one.

If you don't hear from me then know

I am Marty McFly

 

Given that
- The majority of the time your car's clock is running, it is stationary relative to any wall clock.and while moving,
-- You drive 12000 miles per year at an average of 30mph
-- Time dilation due to relative motion is calculated as Δt / ( 1 - t ^ 2 / C ^ 2 )

Your total time dilation will be on the order of 10 ^ -7 seconds per year.relative to the wall clock.

 

So, what you're saying is that I have to drive for a very long time to stay young. Sweet

 

And very fast.

Also, I feel that this is relevant http://xkcd.com/103/

 

xkcd rocks

 

This thread reminds me of the book Rant by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club author). Specifically the weird part about the kid named Rant going really fast in his car and then deliberately crashing, somehow displacing himself back in time 20 or 30 years so he could fuck his mom and impregnate her with himself, then get born and grow up and do it again, with each subsequent time-loop self-fathering incident making him more and more dense (in terms of space-time matter) and more powerful or something like that. Fucking weird book.