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Originally Posted by Sam5
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Originally Posted by Kebsis
Since the Earth and Mars orbit the sun at different rates (they do, right?) wouldn't an astronaut that goes to Mars encounter some of the strange relativistic effects of being there? Like when they got back wouldn't less time have passed for them then for us?
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Their atomic clocks will tick a little faster on Mars than on the earth, but they won’t notice any biological age difference. Anyway, humans go by thermodynamic time, not atomic time. |
There is no difference, Sam5, so try to cut back on the pseudoscientific crap. [-X
The difference in the passage of time between Earth and Mars would be a matter of microseconds per year, because of their different positions in Mars', Earth's and the Sun's gravitational field, as well as the difference in the radius of Earth and Mars, leading to a different acceleration.