So, Me and my friends had a talk about some Sci-Fi stuff. And we had this one question which I’m sure has an answer, perhaps it’s already been figured out but I don’t know. So I’ll ask.
I can’t say it’s totally Halo related, yet Halo’s humans do have multiple planets…So in a way it is related.
Time, Age
So lets take Earth.
Day=24 hours
Week=7 days
Month=30 days (3 so weeks?)
Year=365 days, 12 months, ETC ETC.
We all know this.
Now lets take planet “X” and say there year is half as long, and in fact there days and weeks are in fact half as long too. So one year for us is two years for them.
NOW!
Lets say two kids are born on the same day (Lets not worry about what date, just that it’s on the same date, yet on both planets)
Does each kid age at Earths rate, or do they age according to the planet they are on. For example kid from planet “X” would be 20 by the time Earths kid is 10.
I mean what if the kid from planet “X” went on Earth, would he need to show some age card, And vise versa.
Anyone know?
Also
On a larger scale, If there was more then one planets. Would they all have there own calenders or would they follow Earths/other key planet?
Age would be based off of Earth Time, and you would just essentially have your birthday every other ‘year’ on planet X. The basic rule in Sci-Fi is that Year, and Month goes by the Initial Planet of the species(in this case, Earth). Everything else such as Days go off of a modified schedule to fit the Earth time. The only time you would go off of the date of your planet is when you are trying to determine the dates of specific events on your planet.
In the case with planet X where it is exactly half the time, What they would most likely do is double up the months and essentially have 2 summers, winters, falls, and springs per year. A year in this case would be counted every other year.
The main reason for this is because the Human Body was made with earth in mind, so our special procedures for things such as medical have to be based off of how earth runs; Unless they wanted to create a whole new set of procedures for medicine and other areas of study. The human body is set up so that we age 1 year every 365 Days, so that is the reason why we count the years on every planet as 365 days.
You would age at the same rate. Even if Planet X has a year that is half as long as Earth’s, time still marches forward at 60 seconds per minute. For species consistency, I agree that the Earth standard of 24/7/365 would remain in place.
Reach’s day lasts for a lot longer then Earth. For example, on Nightfall, the mission starts at 26:00 hours, two hours after midnight. Yet kat says at the end of the mission, about an hour or so later, that the ‘sun will be in a few hours’. So what, the sun comes up a tiny bit after midnight…? And not later, at say, 8 o’clock? Cunfusing…
Time is a man-made concept. It doesn’t matter where you are or what the conditions are, you will age exactly the same as you did on Earth. The difference is only appearance internally and externally. Like in space, your body would deteriorate due to extreme atrophy if you weren’t keeping active.
Time and age are non-tangible measurements if anything. It’s just a frame of reference of from here to there under the When factor.
You should be able to work that out for yourself. We can’t stop age by randomly going to a planet. We naturally age so that would be the exact same ageing process as another human being. If the other planet had another species, that might be totally different.
Dude, All I know is that you age more slowly in space away from large bodies, but other than that, how time and gravity works is above my pay grade and my knowledge, and all I care is that my feet stay planted on the ground, and I don’t go from being a 22 year old to a 90 year old man, in less time than 68 years.