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Discuss “How Things Work: Time Dilation”

With over a century since its debut in scientific literature, time travel may be more of an everyday reality than most people think.

By definition, time dilation is the difference in time measurement between two observers, where one moves with respect to the other. Time dilation has been experimentally proven.

Albert Einstein was the first scientist to claim that time runs at different rates depending on the relative velocity between two observers. In 1905, Einstein published a paper titled The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in which he put forth his “Special Theory of Relativity.”

According to this theory, the speed of light and the form of physical laws are the same for all non-accelerating observers. In other words, the speed...

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