Lets have a little fun, and use our brain muscles a little bit.

If we look at Einsteins theory of relativity, we stumble on a little understood but widely proven idea of time dilation, the understanding that with motion, time slows for the one moving. It’s minuscule to be sure, but a definite measurable event. As you would see in this clip, explained by Brian Green, the simplest test of this was to take two atomic clocks set at exactly the same time, one on the ground and one on a plane. Fly the one on the plane around the world, afterwards a check of the clocks will reveal that the one on the plane ran slower, in other words it aged less than the one on the ground.

I wonder, what if we applied the same effects to Ron Capps, repeatedly accelerating to over 300 miles per hour? Once for sure be negligible on his time in terms of ageing, but what if we figured out the effects after hundreds and hundreds of passes? What if we looked at Chris Karamesines or John Force? With thousands of passes? It would be interesting to find out from a physicist the answers?

We are talking about minutes to be sure, at least with the current understanding of time dilation we have, but the effects on our genes and DNA are just beginning to be researched thanks to the sacrifices of the Mark and Scott Kelly. They’re twins, and Scott just spent a year in space while Mark stayed on the ground. So scientists could study the effects of space and time on the body. It would be something to find out that somehow the effects are exaggerated on the human body compared to an atomic clock. It would go a long way to explaining the youthfulness of our stars, even in what some would call their “Golden Years”

And while we are speculating, what about our NASCAR friends? Surely 3 hrs at 200 MPH would have an effect, week after week. It’s not the short bursts that matter, it’s the repeated accumulating time that matters. It would be something to understand that Richard Petty was actually several hrs younger than we think he is.

Are we supposed to believe this guy from 1996 is really,

this guy from 2016? After 20 years? or is he?

So the next time Mr. Capps jumps from his car, he just might be the spry youngster he appears to be.

LOL, Be Safe and Have Fun.