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美国另类相对论:站得越高 老得越快

2010-09-26来源:和谐英语
  Their results confirmed time moves quicker, and hence a person ages faster, when they stand a couple of steps higher on a staircase.

  结果再次证明,对于站在比地面高几个阶梯的楼梯上的人来说,时间过得越快,他们也要比站在地面的人们衰老更快。

  The difference isn't much, about 25 billionths of a second over a 79 year life time, but it will have more practical applications in areas like global positioning systems and geophysics.

  当然,这种衰老速度差异微乎其微。在一个人79年的生命中,可能才只有250亿分之一秒的差别。但是却可以应用于全球定位系统和地球物理学等领域中。

  The key to both experiments is the quantum logic atomic clock, which uses the oscillation of a single aluminium ion to maintain precise timing. The atom vibrates between two energy levels allowing the clocks accuracy down to a second in 3.7 billion years.

  两个实验的重点是量子铝原子钟,它利用单一铝离子的震荡来精准测量时间的流逝。原子在两个能量等级之间震荡,所以钟的精确度为运行37亿年后误差不超过正负一秒。