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We have all learned that time is relative. If we stand still at doing nothing, time would look longer to us than if we are busy. However, in relativity, this notion goes far beyond our simple conception that time is relative, for even if we are not changing our behavior, time can change indepedently of us, of our state of occupation or of our state of mind. It is what the scientits call "time warps."
For a better understanding of this relative new notion, let us make a reference to biology. Have you ever heard of biological clock? In the American Heritage Dictionary, it is defined as "an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity or rhythm of various physiological functions or activities." Biological clock differ from species to other species. For turtles, species that can live longer, the biological clock is longer than in many other species. Another example is: imagine that the earth was rotating faster upon itself, photosynthesis, the synthesis of the first nutrients on earth would have been faster and time would look to us to move faster than in our actual earth. Those are not simple alterations of the state of our mind, they are the proof that time can really change indepedently of our state of mind. Time warps are fairly plausible eventualities, they are realities even if we have never observed them. |