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If i were in a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light. Then if i have this right. Time would seem to be passing at the regular speed to me while back on Earth time is passing at about twice as fast. So if this is true my question is. The electrons in orbit around the nucleus of the atoms back on Earth are traveling near light speed and making a great many orbits per second while on my ship if the electrons were making the same number of orbits per second. Adding on the speed that my ship is traveling the electrons would half to be traveling faster than light so in order for the electrons to stay below light speed they would half to be making about half as many orbits per second as compared to the electrons back on earth. Although the electrons are traveling at about the same rate of speed in both places. But there is a great differents in speed between the nucleuses of those atoms. So if time is passing at about half as slow to me as it is on Earth and the electrons on my ship are orbiting about half as many orbits per second as compared to those on earth. Then is the number of orbits and the interaction between the electrons and the nucleus somehow controlling the flow of time. Also i would like to know if the electrons on my ship would jump to a higher or lower energy state.
Thank you to anyone who answers my question
Ralph
Thank you to anyone who answers my question
Ralph