With many people on the lookout for anti-ageing treatments, who knew that astronauts had the secret?
Not that you can book a trip to space at your local chemist, of course.
Einstein’s theory of relativity, to be exact.The theory goes like this – time is not a constant but rather a variable that is influenced by speed and gravity.
Hence why astronauts age slowly when they’re in orbit, as they’re experiencing time differently from the rest of us down on Earth.
Gravitational time dilation means that the presence of mass changes the fabric of spacetime.As a result, time passes differently depending on the strength of the gravitational field.
With many people on the lookout for anti-ageing treatments, who knew that astronauts had the secret?