You remember the pop physics think I started to do, well here’s another one: The Space-Time Continuum! (insert sci-fi music here) Now this is strictly my interpretation and my spin on it, this isn’t necessarily accurate. I imagine space-time like a graph (I’ve included a homemade copy). At one end of the continuum we have light, which is the fastest thing in the universe and doesn’t experience time. And at the other end we have something that is not moving (relative to some universal standard, I’m not sure how one would get this…but oh well). The person who is not moving experiences time the quickest. For them time is much faster than it is here on earth and they would grow old faster and everything. But for someone near the other end of the line (near light) time is experienced very slowly and it would seem like earth is on fast forward. And that’s how it works. If you increase your speed, time slows down for you and if you decrease your speed your time speeds up. And now you know what to do to get time to speed up and snow down. But good luck increasing your speed by 20% the speed of light during a business meeting.
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