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Researchers more precisely calculate how much faster time passes on the moon (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder why the article doesn’t show time elapsed per year instead.

If a person were to live on the moon for one year, for example, they would be 0.02 seconds older than they would be had they lived on Earth all that time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, 274 years is such a weird time length to use. 0.02 seconds per year is better, or if you wanted to do a "lifetime" measurement it's about 1.68s over 80 years.