Thread: Chornos and old father time. -another time dilation question

Okay here goes,

I was originally going to post this question on the other time dilation one, but it thought it best not to incase it confuses.

Okay. Urm, Time Dilation..............

Time dilates more and more the faster we go, right?

So therefore the slower we go, the more time speeds up, right ?

Okay................so if i stand on the earth, which is spinning at 1000 miles per hour and hurtling around the sun at a much quicker pace, time will appear to go slower than if I were to be stationary in space.

My next question is, at what speed do the electrons in our body move around the nuclei of the atoms ?

There is no stationary space and time dilation only happens relative to something else. Also, the Earth is rotating and revolving, which means it's not an inertial reference frame (no acceleration) so this confuses things even further. But, say you're considering time relative to the sun. Then, yes, if you got off Earth and stood still, relative to the sun, time on the sun would change slightly.

The point I was trying to get at was if somehow you COULD pinpoint an electron and stop it dead in its tracks so it was completely motionless, then at that very moment in time it would cease to exist, because time would have caught up with it.