Can time literally go slower for different beings?

Question

Can time literally go slower for different beings?

Answer 1

yes time can be dilated. if you are in a place with less gravity, or traveling extremely fast, then someone else would see time passing slower for you. but you always experience the same amount of time, from your point of view.

its called time dilation.

Answer 2

Velocity and Gravity warp time.  So time goes slower for someone in motion.  That's what Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved.

Of course, at everyday speeds it's imperceptible.  Even an airline pilot who travels on a jet 40 hours a week for 40 years, the amount of time he's saved is about a second.

Time dilation really comes into play in space travel and traveling close to the speed of light.

As for gravity, that also affects time.  So astronauts on the Space Station are aging (slightly) less than those of us on earth.

Answer 3

The rate at which time passes for different beings varies as some function of their velocities in space, relative to each other.

That's what I was told, anyway.

Answer 4

Perception of time can change.  However every individual (be it human, or animal) is able to adjust their perception, or standardize their perception of time to what is internationally known (ex. a minute)

Answer 5

Time can be dilated, which means it could take, for example, 1.03 seconds as measured on Earth for 1.00 seconds to tick by for the crew on a spaceship going 1/4 light speed.  And if that ship could reach it, but it can't, time could stand still on the ship as seen from Earth if the ship were going at 100% light speed.  That's all from relativity and such time dilation has been observed in the labs; so it is not just a hypothesis, its's a fact.

Time is one of the four dimensions of our known universe; the other three are spatial, like height, width, and length.  As it can be altered by velocity, time is real; not just a concept of the mind.  For example, while time is stretched (dilated) by relativistic effects, length, which is also real, is shrunk by the same relativistic effects.

But, discounting relativistic effects, time marches on at a steady pace.  Slow ups and speeds ups are matters of perception and mindset.  Time just seems to go faster when we're having fun (like at a Pixar movie) and just seems to go slower when we're not (like in the dentist's chair).

So, no, time cannot literally go slower for different beings...barring relativity that is.

Answer 6

The person above could'nt have said it better. It's all a matter of how you look at it. Literally, no. You'd have to slow down the whole planet to do that.

Answer 7

Yes.  It is all in your perception of time.  your feeling of a minute could last longer than that of your mother or friend.

It's all in how one sees it.