Hi Everyone from Vector5

[Vector5]

I've been in toastmasters for four years, recently turned 50, and have started getting back in shape. For a while, because of where I live in the midwest, I was just drifting. I feel that this is a worthwhile forum and that time spent on it is well spent time.

I'll answer any e-mails. There are still discoveries to be made and I'm fascinated by them all.

 

:) Vector5's planet "Somebody's got to live here."

[Thunderbird]

To Vector5..From Vector Hypography, Welcome. :)

[Overdog]

Hi Vector5!

 

It's never too late to get back in shape. When I was 48 I weighed 220 and couldn't jog more than a few hundred feet. I decided to "get back in shape". Now I'm 52, jogging between 20 - 25 miles per week at a 10 min/mile pace, and weigh 180.

 

I feel like I've rolled back the clock a good 10 or 15 years.

[alexander]

I feel like I've rolled back the clock a good 10 or 15 years.

whoa, whoa, let's consider this for a bit.... from SR perspective :)

 

So according to special relativity, the time difference between two objects that start at the similar frame of reference, and one starts moving away at velocity v, is

 

[math]\Delta t'=\gamma \Delta t=\frac{\Delta t}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}[/math]

 

So :)

 

v = 6 mph = 2.68224 m/s

say you ran 30 miles per week, thats 5 hours at 6 mph, say even every week for the past 4 years

that equates the time you spent running to 3,744,000 seconds

 

plugith into equation:

 

[math]\frac{3744000}{\sqrt{1-2.68224^2/299792458^2}}[/math]

 

just ran it in bc

 

bc
scale=30
3744000/sqrt(1-2.68224^2/299792458^2)

3744000.000000000149851021639468037997

 

outcome is that you have gained .000000000150 seconds :) congrats!

 

Thats 150 picoseconds :) (assuming math is correct ofcourse)

 

Vector, welcome to hypography, the only place you know where junk like the above, is an every day occurence :) (in a good way)

 

the time you have gained back is