In Interstellar when they were on the water planet, every minute they spent there, several days passed on Earth. From outside observer’s point of view from Earth, everything happening on the water planet was in slow motion. Why isn’t it the other way around?
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If a body of mass is not moving, electrons circle the nucleus of an atom in a perfect circle. If you are moving, that perfect circle becomes an oval— which means it takes longer for it to orbit the nucleus.
So if you start moving REALLY fast, close to light speed, that oval becomes EXTREMELY elongated and takes much longer to orbit the nucleus. At light speed the electron could never “catch up” to the nucleus, so it could never orbit.
Electrons are pretty much how every signal is generated within the human body. So essentially you could never age at light speed. So the closer you get to light speed, the slower you age.
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