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Do-It-Yourself Relativity - Episode II - Time Dilation

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2008

Physics behaves differently as you and your friends approach the speed of light. Try it at home!*

*Professional science students. Do not attempt.

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  • Thanks for bringing up that point 2conquer4ever.

    Time is defined as follows: 1 second is defined as 9192631770 oscillations between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom in the rest frame of the atom, and a clock is simply a device that counts such oscillations and notifies an observer when 9192631770 oscillations finish, and subsequently starts counting again. 1 meter is defined as the distance light travels in 1/299792458 seconds. Thanks for the comment.

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  • So if Emmet had his cell phone with him and you called him while he was running around campus, how long would the call last for?

  • Actually, ozmoroid- that MIT shirt is an actual CalTech shirt. On the back... it disses MIT. =]

    An added reason as to why CalTech is my dream school. <3

  • Wearing an MIT shirt on the Caltech campus is a sacrilege!

    "How long has he been missing?"

    "In whose reference frame?"

    That's LOL funny.

  • 911: How long has the person been missing?

    Abhiramc: In what reference frame?!?

    LMAO

  • You guys are so awesome, the 911 is so funny, I can't wait for the third one XD

    By the way, may you help me with some question?

    Why does length decrease when the object is approaching light speed?

    Why does mass increase when the object is approaching light speed?

    Thank you :D

  • lmao at the 911 call lol

  • LMAO good video.... steve0crazy you

    re suppose to get the joke behind the story not saying the comedy failed. boooo you steve

  • europe - the final countdown....

    a failed attempt at comedy...

    yet it would have been funnier without the obviously fake 911 call and the amateur acting at the end and him running up, with 9 seconds...

    it could use chuck norris...

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