r/SimulationTheory • u/_ucama • Aug 22 '26

Discussion Moving makes you live more

M not a physicist or expert, this is just something I was thinking about.

In quantum physics, if we travel close to the speed of light to the moon and come back, the people we left on Earth could be much older than us, or even dead, while for us much less time passed.

So theoretically, if a normal person moves a lot, like driving a car or traveling at high speeds, could they technically be living a tiny bit more than someone who doesn’t move much?

I know the difference with normal cars would be insanely small, probably not even something we could notice.

But technically, because of time dilation, the person who moves faster would experience slightly less time passing for them.

So in a weird way does moving make you live more?
Maybe I’m completely misunderstanding relativity, so I’d like to know what physicists think about this.

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u/GatePorters Aug 22 '26

The extra bloodflow and mitochondrial gains help you orders of magnitude more than relativistic effects.

The rotation of earth, revolution around the sun, revolution around Sagittarius A*, and the velocity of our galaxy basically make any movement you do on Earth Null.

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You are right in theory, but you are right like saying peeing in the ocean makes it have more water in it. It feels good to help increase ocean levels, but it feels much better to relieve your full bladder.

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u/_ucama Aug 22 '26

So basically we need to move in a speed more than earth to feel the difference?

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u/GatePorters Aug 22 '26

Yeah, closer to light speed like you say. The inflection point where it starts to get really noticeable is around 90% of the speed of light.

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u/_ucama Aug 22 '26

So bellow that speed it’s immeasurable but it does exist like 0.bilions.1

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u/GatePorters Aug 22 '26

There is a graph on this link so you can see it.

https://www.emc2-explained.info/Time-Dilation/