Scientific discovery: live higher too old to be faster

Chinese scientists found under Relativity: a life in New York on the top of the Empire State building 102 layer on the bottom than living in the streets people per second aging speed 1.04 billion minutes of seconds.

According to Xinhua electricity Einstein's relativity describes gravity on the effects of the passage of time, inferred time speed depends on the location: clock distance farther gravity source running faster; on the contrary, the closer the gravity source, run slower.

According to this theory, the United States scientists with Super precision clock validation at different height of clock speed changes, found that the higher the position, time over faster, or can be interpreted as the "old man" the quicker.

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The most accurate timer

Experiment by the United States Colorado Institute of standards and technology laboratory scientist James · week qinwen (transliteration) lead the team to complete.

Earlier this year, for the completion of the experiment, the team first qinwen developed a hyper-accurate atomic clock. The atomic clock to single aluminium atoms, precision is run after error 37 billion years of no more than plus or minus one second.

As human beings existing Longines timer, it's accurate level exceeded the previous most accurate more than twice the mercury atomic clock.

According to Zhou qinwen infer the results of the experiment, a person who lives far higher, the "old" faster.

Week qinwen said: a life in New York on the top of the Empire State building 102 layer on the bottom than living in the streets people per second aging speed 1.04 billion minutes of seconds. Of course, this little aging speed differences.

United States National Institute of standards and technology, a spokesman told reporters: "the difference is so small, small-to-human couldn't feel, but it can apply to geophysics or other areas.

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Science Magazine Web site that provides different height experiment time difference of the specific data that can be used to

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)