Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
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Black holes could take us to the future, and maybe even the past. The hard part would be surviving the trip.
Time dilation might seem like science fiction, but it’s not. There are astronauts circling the Earth right now who are experiencing it – though luckily nowhere near as much as Buzz Lightyear.
A different interpretation of time might explain why people see their whole lives replayed to them in a split second.
Jets from supermassive black holes behave in mysterious ways. Now scientists have now worked out what’s really going on.
Forget about anti-ageing creams and hair treatments. If you want to stay young, get a fast spaceship. That is what Einstein’s Theory of Relativity predicted a century ago, and it is commonly known as “twin…
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