Science, Creation & EvolutionDinosaurs?Okay, so since dE=dmc^2 tell me how mass at rest can change. One thing we learned from manned space flight is that as a space capsule increases in speed time slows down for those in the capsule. In other words an increase in energy results in an increase in mass and since time slows and how we define time is tied to c, c must decrease. Time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast moving vehicle to travel into the further future while aging very little, in that their great speed retards the rate of passage of onboard time. That is, the ship's clock (and according to relativity, any human travelling with it) shows less elapsed time than stationary clocks. For sufficiently high speeds the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years at home. Indeed, a constant 1G acceleration would permit humans to circumnavigate the known universe (with a radius of some 13.7 billion light years) in one human lifetime. The space-travellers could return to earth billions of years in the future (provided the Universe hadn't collapsed and our solar system was still around, of course). A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
Now comes the question is light a wave or a particle, which brings us back to Planck's constant and orbital time vs. atomic time and the ongoing discussions concerning quantum mechanics vs relativity.
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