"The clocks on the satellites run at different speeds, depending on what distance from Earth they are. "GPS satellites work by having super-accurate clocks aboard the satellite," Ken Olum of Tufts University's Institute of Cosmology told Live Science. Notably, GPS satellites have to take general relativity and special relativity into account so that they can accurately determine your position on Earth. These are extreme examples, but the effects of time dilation do have real-world consequences for human activities. This scenario could be described as time travel because you would move into the future faster than the observer. For example, if you could travel in a spaceship at the speed of light, time would essentially come to a standstill for you from the viewpoint of an observer back on Earth. Traveling at high speeds can also cause time dilation, with greater velocities producing a more significant effect. This effect is known as gravitational time dilation, and it results from distortions in space-time. In fact, if you were able to somehow place a clock close to a black hole and observe it from far away, you may notice that it would appear to tick more slowly than your own watch or another clock that was next to you. Objects such as ourselves or, say, a football only create extremely tiny distortions, which for all intents and purposes are undetectable to us. However, the effect is only detectable for objects with large masses-such as planets, stars or black holes-which can create significant distortions in space-time. So anything with mass is essentially a time warp. In a nutshell, Einstein argued that gravity was not a force but instead originated from curvatures in space-time-the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time combined-caused by uneven distributions of mass. While the idea may seem fantastical, time warps were predicted by Albert Einstein's pioneering theories of special relativity and general relativity, which were published in the early 20th century, Live Science reported. Send us feedback about these examples.A time warp can be thought of as anything that disrupts the flow of time by making it go faster or slower. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'time warp.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Only the back end of this time warp comes with the lesson and baggage of everything that followed Alabama’s arrival in College Station. Esther Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. Caille Millner,, 26 June 2020 The pandemic also acted as a time warp that completely upended the entire industry. 2022 The first half of 2020 has been a time warp. Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2023 Even shopping for flare leggings is a time warp. 2021 Yet many are stuck in a time warp-structuring testing and assessment around easy-to-quantify assessments, still delivering learning in a fundamentally traditional way in line with curriculum requirements (albeit now with the assistance of technology) and still (sigh) often teaching to the test. 2023 Thousands of football fans in Tampa, many seen without masks and partying shoulder-to-shoulder in the streets as if in a pre-coronavirus time warp, are worrying health care professionals who fear the Super Bowl LV hoopla will become a COVID-19 super-spreader event. Recent Examples on the Web Though the film supposedly takes place in the new millennium, its setting seems trapped in an inexplicable time warp, circa 1990.
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