If time does not pass more slowly when the muons go fast why is their life span longer?
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 5:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TRONNIES On 23 May 2014 12:24, John Ross <jr...@trexenterprises.com> wrote: Yes, I have thought about the muon experiments. I will have to work on this issue some more. I just do not believe time passes more slowly when you go fast. I think there must be another explanation of why so many muons make it to the earth surface. There are lots of other examples of time dilation. Any particles in an accelerator with a half life decay more slowly when moving near c. The GPS system has to allow for relativistic time dilation due to both the relative speed of the satellites and their position in the Earth's gravitational field (i.e. there are corrections for both special and general relativity). This effect can also be seen in atomic clocks flown around the world, and in sundry other places. It is very well attested by any number of experiments. (It isn't quite correct to say that time passes more slowly when you go fast, however. But that is a detail at this point in the discussion.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
