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| Description | The time-elapsed on the clocks of a traveler, per unit time-elapsed on clocks in the map-frame, for all possible values of traveler speed v. In map-frame terms, traveler clocks slow as speed goes up. But wait: Does that red line follow a circular path? Precisely. This cool way to plot the flat-space metric equation shows how travelers in effect trade off motion-through-time for motion-through-space as their velocity approaches lightspeed c. The fastest you've seen a large object moving with respect to you may be the plunge of a comet into the sun at around 0.2% of lightspeed, so that the relative velocities between humans is mostly near the y-intercept. Photons in vacuum, on the other hand, congregate around the x-intercept. As you can see, there is also a lot going on in between. For example, possible nuclear medicine applications were part of the mission of the Bevatron, built in the 1950s in Lawrence Livermore National Labs to give heavy ions more than a billion electron volts of energy per nucleon (rightward of the 1 GeV proton on the plot). |
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| Author | P. Fraundorf |
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| 18:21, 6 March 2008 |  | 801 × 801 (25 KB) | Unitsphere (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=The time-elapsed on the clocks of a traveler, per unit time-elapsed on clocks in the map-frame, for all possible values of traveler speed v (and of kinetic energy K per unit mass m). In map-frame terms, traveler clocks slow as s |
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