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Originally Posted by Merlin
I think no matter how close to the speed of light we were going we would subjectively experience time at the same speed we do now. Though even now it slows and speeds for us depending on our activities and expectations. As we slowed back down to a stop then we experience the time differential as time around us had passed so much faster.
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I agree that if on a ship moving at light speed we would probably experience time the same way that we do on Earth. Kind of like when we're driving a car and seatbelted in. Time stays the same, but if we were to break suddenly, it would have passed more time than if we stopped while we were walking. More time and distance. Or maybe that's a bad analogy. I'm just saying that I was wrong about time slowing down as a vessel we're traveling in speeds up. Time stays relatively normal, I think, although we always experience it subjectively. Like if we're having fun it goes by fast. If we're bored or depressed it goes by slowly unless we can fall asleep.