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Famine
I was so bored today that I calculated the time saved, according to Special Relativity, by F1 drivers over a season - just the races mind.

It turns out that an F1 driver is one five-millionth of a second younger each season.

How the heck does that occur??!!!
 
ultrabeat
How the heck does that occur??!!!
Doesn't time go backwards when you go fast? Or does it slow down?

A theroy I think.
 
Blimey!

Karthikeyan won't be getting much younger then...
 
Random fact: I broke my headphones
Random fact: This is my 999th post.
 
live4speed
Random fact 5: I haven't seen my cat all day.
It wouldn't have been a black cat that has been missing a week and likes to travel down the M6 and M4, would it? If not, good.
 
Famine
I was so bored today that I calculated the time saved, according to Special Relativity, by F1 drivers over a season - just the races mind.

It turns out that an F1 driver is one five-millionth of a second younger each season.


Cor.
 
ultrabeat
How the heck does that occur??!!!

Yes, this has been neatly covered already, but it's the time-dilation effect as detailed in Special Relativity.

Moving things - however slowly - experience time more slowly than a fixed observer. Of course, there's no such thing as a fixed observer (we're all moving around the Earth at 900mph, which is moving around the Sun at 65,000mph, which is moving round the Galactic Central Point at about 500,000mph, which is receding from the centre of the Universe at some unimaginable speed), but if the observer is travelling slower than the thing he's observing, then time happens more slowly for the observed thing relative to the observer.


The key part is "however slowly". Time dilation occurs at walking pace - though it's obviously more noticeable the faster you go, until it appears to stop at the speed of light so that, to the fixed observer, one second of your transit takes one second, but to you it takes no time at all.


At an average of about 135mph over about 28.5 hours (19 races of 1.5 hours), the difference in time experienced by an F1 driver is 0.00000002s less than the time that passes for the rest of us.


The formula, if you need it is:

Dilated Time = Actual Time - Root (1 - speed^2/speed of light^2)
 
ExigeExcel
It wouldn't have been a black cat that has been missing a week and likes to travel down the M6 and M4, would it? If not, good.
No, he'd have a job getting to the M6 anyway lol.

Random fact: The realisation that Manchester United probably won't win anything this year has hit me hard after tonights champions league game.
 
Holy crap Funky Truck is awesome.
 
Random fact: The next GT-R has been revealed.
 
I just saw the biggest rainbow evaaar!!!

I once saw one from a plane. When you see them from above they are a full circle. That was pretty cool.
 
DQuaN
I just saw the biggest rainbow evaaar!!!

I once saw one from a plane. When you see them from above they are a full circle. That was pretty cool.

They're always a full circle (in fact almost always 3 or 4 full circles), but the ground generally stops you seeing it. If you look carefully you can follow them into the ground.
 
Random fact: I'm about to have a Chinese takeaway for my dinner.
 
You're microwaving chicken?

Are you mental?
 
There was just a flash of lightening...

Now theres the thunder
and now I can hear the rain..

COOL

EDIT: 2 rumbles
 
Random fact: I feel like I could go to sleep right now, I'm shattered.
 
You need failed stage hypnotist Kenny Craig.

Random Fact: I've been baffling my Physics teacher with the time going slower theory and I reffered to Famine and he said something like "That's Indigo, right?".

That terrifies me.
 
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