I Can Placing Earth Between 3 Black Holes Slow Down Time?

[Joe Bond]

I am just wondering if placing the Earth equidistant from 3 black holes that are spinnng would slow down time on the Earth, due to the time dilation effect. Would that give us more time to live?

 

[Bandersnatch]

Why do you need three? Being in orbit around one would do. And it only slows down the passage of time relative to observers far away from the black hole. For the inhabitants of Earth time would seem to pass normally. Nobody would have gained any extra time to watch Netflix before they died.

 

[Joe Bond]

I am just wondering if placing the Earth equidistant from 3 black holes that are spinnng would slow down time on the Earth, due to the time dilation effect. Would that give us more time to live?

Assuming of course we aren't past the event horizon yet we are relatively close

 

[Joe Bond]

Why do you need three? Being in orbit around one would do. And it only slows down the passage of time relative to observers far away from the black hole. For the inhabitants of Earth time would seem to pass normally. Nobody would have gained any extra time to watch Netflix before they died.

oh I see, that's sad. Thank you for your reply

 

[PeroK]

oh I see, that's sad. Thank you for your reply

Time dilation isn't something that you directly experience. Instead, the special and general theories of relativity entail something called differential ageing. This means that if you go and spend some time close to a black hole and then return, you may well be significant younger than someone who stayed at home. The reason for this is that you have taken a shorter path through spacetime. The length of your path through spacetime is precisely the amount of proper time that has elapsed for you. Proper time is what you experience.

So, although when you return you may be younger than the friends you left behind, you have literally experienced less time. In that sense you can't directly get the best of both worlds by ageing less yet experiencing the same amount of time to enjoy life. You need herbal remedies for that!

 

[Joe Bond]

Time dilation isn't something that you directly experience. Instead, the special and general theories of relativity entail something called differential ageing. This means that if you go and spend some time close to a black hole and then return, you may well be significant younger than someone who stayed at home. The reason for this is that you have taken a shorter path through spacetime. The length of your path through spacetime is precisely the amount of proper time that has elapsed for you. Proper time is what you experience.

So, although when you return you may be younger than the friends you left behind, you have literally experienced less time. In that sense you can't directly get the best of both worlds by ageing less yet experiencing the same amount of time to enjoy life. You need herbal remedies for that!

thank you for your reply