how does "time is different in space" or time dilation works in fiction?? comic book superheroes here, but fiction in general>"astronauts go to the moon have a different time than us here on earth"is whta I heard. dont character go back and forth all the time? do they go to the past? or the future? do they age in their travels?? does it affect them??worse, the way they fight in space and ping-pong each other between earth, the moon, etc is it that easy??i dont understand anything about this science time thing
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Honestly, shit like this is exactly what AI chatbots are for. Go bother some computer instead of posting here.
>>153074712You're no fun.
>>153072229>how does "time is different in space" or time dilation works in fiction??However the author wants it to in order to serve their plot. That's literally it, anon.
>>153072229The first thing about relativity you need to get is that there is now universal clock that says how much time has "really" passed, or what time it "really" is now. It depends on your frame of reference. Time dilation increases as you move closer to the speed of light. As you approach c, (which is light's speed in a vacuum, IE as fast as light can possibly travel) the passage of time for you slows relative to other frames of reference. If you traveled in a circle at very close to light speed for a distance of just under a light year, when you arrived back at your starting point you'd find that about a year would have passed on Earth, but you would have experienced virtually no time at all. Like "I just left five minutes ago, how is it 2027 already?" That's an extreme example, but we've measured it happening to a much smaller degree with satellites and things. And let's not even open the can of worms that is faster-than-light travel, which is likely impossible in our universe. (I'll just say that if you can get from point A to B faster than the light that left B, no matter how you manage to do it, you can absolutely go back in time.)Superhero comics, like space opera, flat-out ignore all of this shit because they're rooted in the 1930s when relativity was a funny new idea that might not catch on, and because the kinds of stories they usually want to tell won't work if you can't easily go star-hopping.
>>153076077*no universal clock*the light the left A gets to B
>>153075190then how come powerscaling is a thing when fiction IS NOT real life physics, laws, universe etc?? then fuck i care if superman can travel at the speed, THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSEx guy can blow up the earth? well thats that specific dragon ball earth, it means fucking nothing to opm earth or ben 10 earth
