How to Use time dilation in a Sentence

time dilation

noun

• The time dilation aspect was one of the first things that came to us.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 12 June 2022
• This bending of space-time avoids the perils of time dilation.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
• However, each four-minute trip equals four years on their space colony due to the effects of time dilation.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 17 June 2022
• Anders tells the men who follow her that if something fails, no one will follow them because of the time dilation.
  — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 18 June 2020
• All the matter that fell in after the astronaut over millions of years would come crashing down on them in less than a second because of the extreme time dilation effects.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2020
• Because of a phenomenon called cosmological time dilation, due to the expansion of the universe, the crash will seem to take place in 21 years from our point of view on Earth.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 22 May 2015
• Due to time dilation, those messages could reveal the entire sweep of future history.
  — WIRED, 28 Nov. 2020
• There is a phenomenon of relativity known as time dilation, in which time appears to slow down almost to a stop for bodies that approach the speed of light.
  — Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Though the effect is far too small to be noticeable to humans, this idea of quantum time dilation could have repercussions for high-precision quantum clocks.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2020
• In one such experiment, the lifetime of muon decay verifies the existence of time dilation.
  — Ronald C. Lasky, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
• That means the time dilation has practically zero effect.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
• Back on Earth, Eyehategod’s music at least feels like a metaphor for gravitational time dilation.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• And because of the time dilation effects in Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, known as general relativity, 1 year passing on such a planet would see thousands of years go by around an ordinary star.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• To illustrate the effect of time dilation, Einstein proposed an example—the twin paradox—that is arguably the most famous thought experiment in relativity theory.
  — Ronald C. Lasky, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
• Nothing is particularly egregious about Angus MacLane’s film, which tosses its bulbous-jawed hero into a narrative of planet colonization and time dilation that feels a little like diet Interstellar.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• Similarly, gravitational time dilation, the bending of light by large masses, and the precession of everything from planetary orbits to rotating spheres sent up to space has demonstrated spectacular agreement with Einstein’s predictions.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• The contribution upended understandings of gravity, space and time, opening up explorations of gravitational time dilation, light deflection and gravitational waves.
  — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024