• Question: Can you please explain what it would be like to live on a planet with the same environment as ours, however each minute was a second. To expand, an hour would be a minute. A day would be 24. How would this effect the climate? How would it effect global warming? What else would it so?

    Asked by Sean to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Peter Maskell

      Peter Maskell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Time is relative. sometimes a minute can feel like an hour (when you are bored). Sometimes it goes really quickly (when you are enjoying yourself). so it would change nothing.

    • Photo: Anaïs Pujol

      Anaïs Pujol answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Time is a reference made up by the human to explain physics law. If you look it up at the theory of relativity, what is true in a referential A will not be the same in a referential B. This is relativity. Indeed Clocks on the Space Shuttle run slightly slower than reference clocks on Earth as the two referential are moving from each others. It is also called time dilation. On Mars the time will be different than the one on Earth. The time is subject to gravity and velocity.
      You can also look it up The case of the travelling twins by Einstein.

    • Photo: Sarwat Iqbal

      Sarwat Iqbal answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I like Anais’s answer.
      I am not sure why would it effect global warming though? Its really hard to predict what would happen if time is expanded.

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