Albert Einstein predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronised, and then one was moved away and brought back, the clock which had undergone the traveling would be found to be lagging behind the clock which had stayed put.
This is illustrated in the "Twin Paradox," one of Einstein's famous thought experiments, which states that if someone travels in a rocket at or near the speed of light, upon returning to earth they will appear to have aged considerably less (depending, of course, on have long and fast they traveled) than their identical twin who remained on earth. This has been proven true using extremely accurate atomic clocks on airplanes at, of course, much slower than light speed travel.
I believe that the rocket in Daniel's experiment traveled through a wormhole (or vortex or whatever) on it's way to the island, thus simulating light speed travel. This means that the ROCKET'S clock was lagging behind the freighters clock--NOT that real world time and island time are different. This is a subtle differece, but I think an important one. In my opinion, the island and the rest of the world are not "traveling" through space at different speeds and therefore do not have different times. However, objects or people traveling to or from the island can (and probably will) experience time lag similar to the identical twins in the thought experiment.
The wormhole is most likely the only way to get to to and from the island. If that is true, people who stay on the island will age like everyone else. But, those who travel back and forth between the island and the real world a lot (like Richard) will seem as though they are aging slower than everyone else. Although we now know that Ben has not been on the island his whole life, he has probably not gone back and forth many times through the wormhole. Therefore, he ages at a more "normal" rate.
Thanks for listening.
Theory by MDM
This is illustrated in the "Twin Paradox," one of Einstein's famous thought experiments, which states that if someone travels in a rocket at or near the speed of light, upon returning to earth they will appear to have aged considerably less (depending, of course, on have long and fast they traveled) than their identical twin who remained on earth. This has been proven true using extremely accurate atomic clocks on airplanes at, of course, much slower than light speed travel.
I believe that the rocket in Daniel's experiment traveled through a wormhole (or vortex or whatever) on it's way to the island, thus simulating light speed travel. This means that the ROCKET'S clock was lagging behind the freighters clock--NOT that real world time and island time are different. This is a subtle differece, but I think an important one. In my opinion, the island and the rest of the world are not "traveling" through space at different speeds and therefore do not have different times. However, objects or people traveling to or from the island can (and probably will) experience time lag similar to the identical twins in the thought experiment.
The wormhole is most likely the only way to get to to and from the island. If that is true, people who stay on the island will age like everyone else. But, those who travel back and forth between the island and the real world a lot (like Richard) will seem as though they are aging slower than everyone else. Although we now know that Ben has not been on the island his whole life, he has probably not gone back and forth many times through the wormhole. Therefore, he ages at a more "normal" rate.
Thanks for listening.
Theory by MDM
