Today we are learning about Einstien's theories. He's a lot more interesting than Galileo! According to various theories, the following things are true:
The faster you travel, the slower you age.
For example, if you were hired to travel on a spaceship at 80% the speed of light, during the time that your biological clock would tick away 20 years, your twin back on Earth would have aged 33.3 years!!
Massive objects warp space.
Say you were in space and you wanted to go from point A to point B, and it was going to take you 10 years to make the trip. Now, no one wants to waste ten years of their life, so what's to do? Simply borrow a planet or some other large object from a nearby solar system and stick it in between the two points and boom, space becomes warped and you no longer have as far to go! Of course, if you don't have a planet handy, remember that E=MC^2. Just shoot a huge amount of energy in place of the planet and the same result occurs. Neato!!
The faster you travel, the shorter things appear.
When you drive on the interstate, the lines in the center of the road appear from the point of view of a driver to be about two meters. If you were to measure, however, they are actually much longer, at 9 meters!
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