From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Feb 21 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!newsfeed.wli.net!portc04.blue.aol.com!audrey02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: chn92@aol.com (ChN92) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: left hand ages faster than right------------ Date: 22 Feb 1998 06:51:54 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <19980222065100.BAA17104@ladder02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder02.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com can someone explain how one can understand this? using the lorentz transformation equations something weird pops up. t'=gamma(t-vx/c^2) or t=gamma(t'+vx'/c^2) this means that even if t1' = t2' are same if x'1 and x'2 are not same then we will measure different time in a frame outside of the '-frame. then if a person stands like this in a very fast moving ship O | ------------ | | / \ / \ / \ then his body will age together in his moving ship.b ut to someone looking from outside of his fast moving space ship, his left hand will age more than the right hand. t(left hand)=gamma(t'(lefthand) + v x'(lefthand)/c^2) is this the right way to interpret this equation? .