a hero passes

"William R Thompson" wrote in message
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"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

"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...