From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Jul 26 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.ohsu.edu!not-for-mail From: Matt Jones Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: general relativity Date: 27 Jul 1998 16:27:56 GMT Organization: Vollum Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <6pi9qc$e3f$1@fremont.ohsu.edu> References: <6pgkp3$fsb$1@talia.mad.ibernet.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.53.99.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_PPC X-XXDate: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:31:41 GMT In article <6pgkp3$fsb$1@talia.mad.ibernet.es> Bithorax, lambda@serconet.com writes: >I look up a reflexion. >Witch is the biologic description of the general relativity theme about the >relativity of time?; it pass speeder when a system is near a heavy body, (I >donīt will enter in the velocity of system) > This is off-topic for this newsgroup, but what the hell. Time passes slower for a clock that is moving fast, relative to the speed of light. I think it also passes slower for a clock near a big mass (or experiencing a large accelleration). There's a novel called "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon", by Fred Pohl I think, that describes space travelers forever locked in orbit around a black hole. On board their ship, time creeps by at a snails pace, while outside the black hole galaxies are born and die. .