not even lunchtime yet.

[Guest Jake Wifebeater]

Yay sexism

Ach, so what?

[Guest treader.]

so, yeah, it's lunchtime...

[soundian]

For time to actually slow down you need to basically be at a high altitude travelling at high speed this is due to the fact that the outside of the earth revolves at a higher speed than the core of the earth. So technically the higher up you are the slower time passes. This theory has actually been proven though for it to actually work you basically need to be in a plane to be up high enough for it to be notable even so, time only passes at a slightly slower pace.

This isn't quite correct.

The experiment involved two planes, one travelling east and one travelling west, with atomic clocks on them and an atomic clock on the ground. The clock travelling west had a higher speed relative to the one on the ground and the clock travelling east had a slower speed relative to the one on the ground. The west one showed less time and the east one showed more time compared to the one on the ground.

This has nothing to do with the earth revolving at a higher speed the further you get from the core, it is after all quite thin air up there and there's nothing to "drag" it along at the speed of the earth's rotation. It is due to the higher/lower speeds of the aircraft RELATIVE to the speed of the "stationary" clock.

Your statement that the higher up you are the slower time passes is completely wrong. Time slows down in a gravitational field (or, to be geeky, time slows down when spacetime is more curved) so the higher up you are (the less gravitational pull, or the less curved spacetime is) the faster time goes.

All this is, of course, relative to the observers frame of reference.

[Chris]

This isn't quite correct.

The experiment involved two planes, one travelling east and one travelling west, with atomic clocks on them and an atomic clock on the ground. The clock travelling west had a higher speed relative to the one on the ground and the clock travelling east had a slower speed relative to the one on the ground. The west one showed less time and the east one showed more time compared to the one on the ground.

This has nothing to do with the earth revolving at a higher speed the further you get from the core, it is after all quite thin air up there and there's nothing to "drag" it along at the speed of the earth's rotation. It is due to the higher/lower speeds of the aircraft RELATIVE to the speed of the "stationary" clock.

Your statement that the higher up you are the slower time passes is completely wrong. Time slows down in a gravitational field (or, to be geeky, time slows down when spacetime is more curved) so the higher up you are (the less gravitational pull, or the less curved spacetime is) the faster time goes.

All this is, of course, relative to the observers frame of reference.

Nrrrrrrggghhh. My brain hurts.