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akshay848
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hi people!
please can anyone explain me the conclusions of a thought experiment given below ?
consider yourself standing straight with both nyour hands wide apart horizontal to the floor on the surface of the Earth wearing a stop watch on your wrist, now bring your hands together start the stop watch and go back to theninitial position and back together and stop then stop watch. then time recorded on your stop watch is say 2 seconds. say the diastance covered by your hands in this motion is 4 meterrs now imagine you expanding and growing bigger and bigger, imagine you being bigger than our galaxy. now repeat the experiment, it will again take 2 seconds to perform the same action but now the distance covered is a few hundred light years. does nthat mean you started moving faster than light ? or the time changes for different sizes ?
please can anyone explain me the conclusions of a thought experiment given below ?
consider yourself standing straight with both nyour hands wide apart horizontal to the floor on the surface of the Earth wearing a stop watch on your wrist, now bring your hands together start the stop watch and go back to theninitial position and back together and stop then stop watch. then time recorded on your stop watch is say 2 seconds. say the diastance covered by your hands in this motion is 4 meterrs now imagine you expanding and growing bigger and bigger, imagine you being bigger than our galaxy. now repeat the experiment, it will again take 2 seconds to perform the same action but now the distance covered is a few hundred light years. does nthat mean you started moving faster than light ? or the time changes for different sizes ?