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"William R Thompson" wrote in message link.net... "muff528" wrote: "William R Thompson" wrote: I made the time-dilation factor as about 0.999999999644 (square root of 1 minus beta-squared), with Schirra spending about 1062000 seconds in space at orbital speed and beta equal to 8 km/sec over the speed of light (close enough to 300,000 km/sec). Schirra would have lost about 400 microseconds. From his point of view didn't *we* lose the ~400ms ? Yes, but it's all relative. --Bill Thompson Uh-oh!.......here's where gravity, acceleration, rotating discs, twins and those 2 doctors come into play. This is what made my head hurt back in kawlidge. (OTOH..maybe it was the frat parties!......Naw!, I'm sure it was the math/physics ;-) BTW - thanks for doing the math. I'm glad to see that my wild guess was within only 1-2 seconds, (even though I was off by several orders of magnitude!) TP |
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"William R Thompson" wrote in news:Wi%_h.11887
: "muff528" wrote: "William R Thompson" wrote: I made the time-dilation factor as about 0.999999999644 (square root of 1 minus beta-squared), with Schirra spending about 1062000 seconds in space at orbital speed and beta equal to 8 km/sec over the speed of light (close enough to 300,000 km/sec). Schirra would have lost about 400 microseconds. From his point of view didn't *we* lose the ~400ms ? Yes, but it's all relative. Really? Must be on me mudder's side... |
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