Experiment in time travel based on Einstein's theories
There's Time For Everything
Hey, would anybody in this room like to take a swim in the fountain of Youth. Sorry can't help you with a beverage that will turn you into a kid again, nor can I tell you how to travel back in time or leap into the future like they do in the movies. But I can tell you about a theory of time travel, known as the twin paradox and an experiment in time travel that did work. First, let me define time, Einstein himself defined time as, "that which is measured by a clock". This would mean any time piece. From an article that was written in Scientific American magazine, a team of scientists from The University of Southern California, decided to test Einstein's definition and ran an experiment of their own using two atomic clocks, for precision. They kept one clock on the ground and took one up in a plane and sent it on a two hour tour. The clock that took the trip slowed down and in short got younger, by how much you ask, 40 billionths of a second. How is this achieved you ask? This is achieved by one of Einstein's theories stated in his papers on the theories of relativity, it is known as the twin paradox. Lets say that we have a pair of twins, one on earth and the other in a spaceship in space. We accelerate the ship to half the speed of light slowing time down for the traveler, in theory if you reach the speed of light time will stop, and sent the one twin on a trip for one year. When the traveler returns he finds out that for him one year has passed, but for his twin, 50 years have passed for the other twin. That is known as the twin paradox. So, all you have to do is get yourself several plane tickets to fly around the world, and in no time at all you will be a second younger and much wiser.
