Five times slower for us distant observers, regular time (1 second = 1 second) if you’re actually there, if I’m understanding this correctly.
Still, difficult to wrap my brain around.
- t3rmit3 ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
So we even get less time now than older generations… sheesh.
- Myaa ( @Myaa@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I read through the article and it didn’t explain at all how studying quasars determined this. I wonder if there’s a better breakdown as to how they were able to ascertain this. I know there’s been some major announcements in the field thanks to quasar study so I’m curious as to how this ties into that.
- Phroon ( @Phroon@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Luckily there’s a preprint of the article on arXiv if you want to read the source material for the article.
My basic summary would be that they have a model for how variable a quasar should be over time, and they can see a difference in that variability depending on the quasar’s redshift, the distance from us. And that difference is right around what we expect from relativity.
- fluffman86 ( @fluffman86@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Does this assume the speed of light is a constant? Is there a difference between Time running slower while C is constant, and Time being constant while C actually changes?