Re: Does a snail experience relativistic effects?

Dear crapaccount1138:

<crapaccount1138@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You are right, of course, that gamma is always
non-zero; as I said, I am not a specialist by any
means. I realize, too, that the effect could never
be measured, but measurability is not the point:
the fact (if it's true)

"True" has nothing to do with it. It is what can be measured.
Like gravitational time dilation between the top and bottom of a
tower, all you have to do is wait long enough...

that time dilation "happens to" a snail, even if
the effect is too tiny to be observed, is still
rather staggering, is it not?

Consider this, I can appear to place the entire Moon between my
fingers. This too is perspective. Duration (aka. aging) is
simply another interval between events. Not every one see them
as the same.

David A.Smith


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