The higher you are, the faster you age
Beware .... Skyscrapers are bad for you.. Move out of Ezdan Towers now !! :O(
Einstein's theory of relativity works on a human scale: Living the high life really does age you, scientists have proved.
Researchers have demonstrated one of Einstein's theories of relativity - that the further away from the Earth you are, the faster time passes works even on a human scale.
That means – even though the differences are tiny – you really will age faster if you live on the top floor of a skyscraper than in a bungalow.
The discovery, made by scientists in the US, confirms a theory first proposed by Einstein – that clocks run faster the further away from the ground they are.
Although the concept has been accepted for many years, now the difference can be measured for the first time with astonishing accuracy.
Using a pair of the world's most precise clocks, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado, discovered that simply going upstairs will make you age faster.
If one of the clocks was moved just a foot higher, then it ran a little bit faster – albeit by a tiny fraction of a second.
So, taking just a couple of steps upwards will remove 90 billionths of a second to a 79-year lifetime.
By moving about 10 feet to the top of the stairs, you would age quicker by 900 billionths of a second.
And if you were to spend your life at the top of the 102-storey Empire State Building (1250 feet) you would lose 104 millionths of a second, said one of the researchers, James Chin-Wen Chou.
The experiments used "quantum logic" atomic clocks which can keep time to within one second over 3.7 billion years.
This is really interesting topic. Please allow me to share it in my fb. I can use this later on in the classroom.
So I stop thinking now of living in a high-rise building.
:) I got it :)
Tinker you are a sadist, and i like it, my sort of person, high, loud and nasty :)
Okies
TC...On the 9th Floor? like last time?... before you became famous...lol
sure dude, gimme a call when ready...LOL
jack, take me higher :)
Happy you are such a sweet heart ;)
Tinker, Anytime!
Brite, give us a better thread please!
All I was talking was about getting High... or Higher...
Tailchopper, thanks for pointing that ... I apologise...I just got carried away.
Brit...same to you too, as this is your thread.
Tail Chopper... I forgot ma pone yaar ... and I dont have Happy's Number :(
Happy and jack, why dont you call each other to discuss your personal issues :)
Tinker you too!!
Jack... lol.....Teetotaler & me????....never....:) its just the flu thingy, if it sustains or doc advices.
OMG.... juice.. I almost fell off the chair.... even you Teetotaler?...
First WK now you? is the blessed thing contagious? ...lol
yeah.. people living around mount Everest are very old, very very old
Brite, thanks for sharing.
Jack... sure thing.
Tennis on Wednesday...not sure as still struggling with flu.
Thursday...sure we will go.... but seems I have to chill with some kinda weird juice or soft drink...:)
Happy how was Japan?.... need to hear all the stories from you... this Wednesday!
I hope you remember this Wednesday we will be playing lawn tennis at the same old place.... and Thursday will go to some new place that you had suggested... :)
Gudone I didnt forget... just wanted to highlight ;)
this is so lame. good for nothing.
Ah, so it was not Al Sadd...my bad...:)
lol jack it seems u forgot him....flyingace(saadm80)
Gudone there is no person called Saad on QL... :(
the Oil of Olay Age Defying Series and live the high life!
i was wondering saad's age now??
Time waits for no man - or woman in your case ..
There is also a theory of that affecting health.... since the body is so much further from the center of the earth and gravity....
Oh no...guess I should have stuck to rodent infested villas and saved my complexion =(
Amazing proof of what we already knew....Ezdan is a poor choice for so many reasons....LOL
means if i slow down the clock, (better stop) then.........this limit theory is for clock not for human life.
I always wondered why residents of West Bay looked haggard .. No we know..
This may get offset if the hygenic conditions of the surroundings are taken into account. Overall it may work out to be beneficial staying farther away from the ground.
what i dont get is ..if the clock is going faster does it mean that the person is aging faster?
Ya it's true but the difference is almost negligible so doesn't really matter
This is interesting, thanks for sharing!