What Michelle Thaller has said about Time dilation

3 quotes · 1 episode · May 28, 2026

Michelle Thaller, American astrophysicist, science communicator and retired NASA executive, has been quoted on Time dilation 3 times in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on May 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Thaller said that without correcting for relativistic time effects, GPS positions would drift about six miles in a single day.

    “if we didn't take into account the time difference these things are in, that we'd be about six miles off. I mean, in a single day”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2506 - Michelle Thaller (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 20:58

  • Thaller said astronauts spending a year on the space station return about one hundredth of a second younger due to motion-based time dilation.

    “If you are on the space station for a year, you come back about one one-hundredth of a second younger than you should be”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2506 - Michelle Thaller (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 22:32

  • Thaller argued that no one yet knows what time fundamentally is and that answering this would require a new revolution in physics.

    “I don't think we have an answer to what time is. What are we measuring? I think right there, I think you're asking for the next revolution in physics that we don't have yet”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2506 - Michelle Thaller (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 28:52

Episodes

  • #2506 - Michelle Thaller

    The Joe Rogan Experience · May 28, 2026 · 2 h 44 min

    Joe Rogan and astrophysicist Michelle Thaller discuss black holes, relativity, quantum entanglement, the Big Bang, NASA missions, AI, consciousness and psychedelics.

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