Comments on: “Einstein’s Pedometer” Tracks Subtle Benefit of Exercise: How Much Time Slows as You Move

By: jexlude

jexlude — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:16:48 +0000

Yea, Snazz/ Merry Pranxter, First thing I thought of was getting on the Expressway.

By: merrypranxter

merrypranxter — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:56:37 +0000

what about moving in a car? wouldn’t that do just as good?

By: Snazz

Snazz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:29:37 +0000

Lets see how this app responds to me doing laps around my neighborhood in my car.

By: G

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:29:18 +0000

I’ve always been curious about the effect that long term space travel will have on the evolution of our race. If we overcome the substantial technological barriers and find a way to go to nearby solar systems at velocities approaching the speed of light on fully self-sufficient vehicles… the returning voyagers (assuming they have the chance to return and choose to do so) would come back to a place quite different than the place they left.
Will they be welcomed back?
Will they be viewed as holdovers of a bygone era?
Will they be forgotten by the very people that sent them?
Will they ever be able to feel at home in their birthplace?
Will there be an app for that too?

By: Vex

Vex — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:31:20 +0000

@3 Paula Jones:
Sorry, but I’m not so sure – you are moving on a treadmill, but staying in the same place in relation to anything else around you.

And since the iphone app uses the phone’s GPS to track your location, it would have no way of knowing if you were running on a treadmill or sitting on your couch watching reruns.

By: zubby

zubby — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:17:18 +0000

thats the more reason why humans should build faster space crafts, that way a trip 2 andromeda and back will take 8yrs travelling at the speed of light, while life on earth wud hv gone by 80yrs or so, u wud come back and be younger than ur grankids!

By: Paula Jones

Paula Jones — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:37:04 +0000

Well, Stranger Tides, the article simply says ‘moving’ and being on a treadmill means moving so…If you have an iphone give it a shot and let us know what the app says!
And, Jim Johnson, I enjoyed your comment – lol!

By: StrangerTides

StrangerTides — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:41:10 +0000

Using a treadmill doesn’t gain you anything I suppose…

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:49:40 +0000

Wouldn’t this mean that if you stroll in an Westerly direction, you’d actually age faster? As your movement actually subtracts from the speed imparted on your body by the spin of the earth? All those picoseconds lost by hippies moving to California in the 60′s! Oh, the humanity!