Forgive me my ignorance but does that mean that you age at a different speed at the moon compared to earth ?
Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone
by slow_typist on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:10AM
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Exactly. Look up the twin‘s paradox - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone
by thaumasiotes on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:54AM
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You age at the same speed. Stuff that is far away from you may age more or less rapidly, but that effect only exists at the point where some kind of communication travels between you and the faraway stuff.
I've heard that due to time dilation time runs slower inside the Earth's core, enough to make it a couple of years younger than its surface.
Technically yes - but the difference amounts to 2 seconds per century. Your lunar clone would be younger than you, but the difference would be less time than you spent calculating the difference.
Yes, as the article states, clocks run faster on the Moon. About 56 microseconds per day.
Be that as it may, as far as I know, Newtonian gravity was sufficient for the moon landings. So I'm guessing this is more of a coordination issue between countries than a necessity for trajectories or such.