Time dilation

Subject in Physics

Time dilation has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

What people said

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
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 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

#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.