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Just to get myself a little more educated in astronomy, <br /><br />As the sun is a massive body and apparently bends space time around it to a degree, does this mean any object with a mass does the same thing to a certain extent, and if so how does this affect our perception of time,<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Sponge <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><u>SPONGE</u></em></p> </div>
 
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Sorry, I meant to open this thread in Ask the Astronomer<br /><br />Sponge <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><u>SPONGE</u></em></p> </div>
 
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Even protons bend space-time.<br /><br />But the effect would be tiny indeed.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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Anything with mass will essentially warp space-time around it. Humans have mass, so we too bend the space-time around us. However, it is so incredibly small, we can't possibly perceive it.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>
 
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Thanks for the replies, I already understood the mass to warping space relationship, but how does it affect time, in a way if eveything warps space then would it be correct to say that everything is in its own time frame depending on the severity of the warping of space time. Could this relationship be a factor as to why we cant account for the supposedly 90 percent of the missing mass in our galaxy in some way.<br /><br />Ill wait for some replies and try to explain myself a little better. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><u>SPONGE</u></em></p> </div>
 
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I'm not even sure how to reply to this, but I can give it a shot <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I can see what you're saying about each individual body with mass being within its own time frame. However, It would only be perceivable on large scales. For instance, black holes might be very good evidence for this. As an objects mass becomes larger and larger, its escape velocity becomes higher and higher. <br /><br />For example, if you're being pulled straight towards the Sun, time would run slower than it does if you're being pulled towards Earth. With a black hole, when you come closer and closer to the event horizon, time will tick slower and slower. Until, you reach the inevitable point of the event horizon, when time may stop as you reach the speed of light. <br /><br />As for relating that to the missing mass in the galaxy, I haven't got a clue, give Mr. Hawking a call <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>
 
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Sorry, I should explain myself better, even though the tiniest particle can bend space time around it, it is classified as not even being perceivable, but maybe because it not seen as" perceivable" does not mean it does not have an effect" So if you have all these tiny particles not acreted into a larger body, say in for instance in the mass of our galaxy, you would have billions of objects, particles strewn through out the galaxy all bending space time in a minute way, What iam asking is does this have an influence on what we are able to accurately observe and measure objects and distances. Just a thought. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><u>SPONGE</u></em></p> </div>
 
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