Driving Time Dilation

[SafeSpeeder]

People who frequently drive fast, are actually experiencing time slower than those who are hogging lanes on the highway. This means the faster speeds one drives at, the further into the future they experience compared to a normal time frame (Time Dilation).

[hotdogPi]

Airplanes do much more for this than cars do.

[NE2]

No.

[Max Rockatansky]

Try getting near the Event Horizon of a Black Hole (assuming you can withstand the heat) and find out what happens regarding time dilation.

[jeffandnicole]

If you want to see a millenia of picoseconds of time duration, see what happens when you try taking one of my McDonald's french fries.

[CoreySamson]

Ah, this is a perfect thread to bring up one of the laws instituted during the Figueroa administration dictating the regulations on driving time dilation.

Ordinance 75.56, Section 2.
Whilst driving a car commences, driving time dilation is not to exceed 34.4 picoseconds, unless the driving time dilation is 500.3 picoseconds exactly, by which penalties shall not be brought upon onto the defendant. Under the 2002.5 Alanland Environmental Agency Executive Periodical Organization Development Board, if the dilation exceeds 23.2 picoseconds, then the operator must fill out an I-69 form of exitation, and bring it to the Pfangle on 42nd street in Large Oblast for documentation.

Section 3.
If the operator of the car is not in fact operating a car, but instead operating a quadricyclian moped, then the driving time dilation is not to exceed 1.2319 firsts. Operators will be punished if they fill out an I-69 form of exitation.

Section 4. Penalties.

First offense of Section 2 will result in the car's oil being siphoned off by Thealan69321, and a fine of 350 Numberwang. Second and third offenses require the guilty party to sing "To Hell With Alan Colfax" whilst wearing a fish hat upside down over their left kneecap. Section 3 has no associated penalties. First offense of Section 4 will result in exportation to Nimbya, as well as the compulsory fine of 350 Numberwang.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

So is there any "punishment" for having to stand (or sit) in place?

[renegade]

No.

This.

[formulanone]

No.

This.

Any dilation gains were wasted on this thread, or an extra eye blink.

[CtrlAltDel]

Driving for an hour at one ten-millionth of the speed of light, about 67.06 mph, gives a total time dilation of almost exactly 180 microseconds.

Unless I messed up the math, which I may have.

ETA: Which I did, it works out to 18 picoseconds.

Now you know.

[renegade]

So what do you plan to do with all this extra time?

[CoreySamson]

So what do you plan to do with all this extra time?

I intend to use it documenting obscure laws from Alanland, thank you very much.

[renegade]

So what do you plan to do with all this extra time?

I intend to use it documenting obscure laws from Alanland, thank you very much.

Oh.  OK.  Goodbye then.   

[Brandon]

So what do you plan to do with all this extra time?

I intend to use it documenting obscure laws from Alanland, thank you very much.

Which is and is not allowed under Law 8675309.

[Max Rockatansky]

So what do you plan to do with all this extra time?

I intend to use it documenting obscure laws from Alanland, thank you very much.

Which is and is not allowed under Law 8675309.

Do the normal laws of physics apply in Alanland?

[kurumi]

There's also the issue of relativistic mass increase: your mass increases as your speed does. It might be neither sick gainz nor just "flahb" but Lorentz contraction. Will it make you look 0.000000001% more jacked?

[I-55]

Airplanes do much more for this than cars do.

But do people fly everyday?

You'd be surprised to know that captains, pilots, copilots, air marshals, and the rest of airplane staff do indeed fly almost every day.

[Rothman]

Airplanes do much more for this than cars do.

But do people fly everyday?

You'd be surprised to know that captains, pilots, copilots, air marshals, and the rest of airplane staff do indeed fly almost every day.

Actually, no.  Pilots have mandated time off.

[Scott5114]

Airplanes do much more for this than cars do.

But do people fly everyday?

You'd be surprised to know that captains, pilots, copilots, air marshals, and the rest of airplane staff do indeed fly almost every day.

Actually, no.  Pilots have mandated time off.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they aren't sometimes a passenger on those days off. I seem to remember reading it's kind of commonplace for a pilot or flight attendant's week to end with them in a totally different city than where they started, but the airline will fly them as a passenger back to wherever home is after their last shift ends.

[GaryV]

So is that why time seems to fly faster as I age?  Because I've traveled more miles?

[kphoger]

Do the normal laws of physics apply in Alanland?

Those are the only laws of physics that do apply in Alanland.  The weird ones don't apply, as stipulated in the Brunsweld Edict.

[CoreySamson]

Do the normal laws of physics apply in Alanland?

Those are the only laws of physics that do apply in Alanland.  The weird ones don't apply, as stipulated in the Brunsweld Edict.

As a result of this, it is very difficult (some would say impossible) to get into Alanland State University, because the university is too busy reviewing the laws' applications to get in that it neglects those of goats and Alans. The weird ones go to night school instead (trust me, you do not want to go to night school in Alanland).