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Do airline pilots age more slowly due to traveling at high speeds?

I know that time slows as you approach the speed of light, so does spending an entire 30 year career traveling at high rates of speed slow the rate of aging or is this not enough speed to slow time or make any difference at all?

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  • 8 years ago
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    A pilot could spend his entire career flying in jet planes, and the time difference would add up to less than one-tenth of 1/1000 of a second.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    it's not fast enough to make a difference, AND the risk of cancer is greater if the pilots fly routes that go close the north pole for many years, but elevation of cancer risk is not a lot higher. The clock does NOT slow down for the person traveling at high speeds. IF you were looking at THEIR clock, THEIR clock would SEEM to tick slower and slower the faster they are moving RELATIVE TO YOU. , while YOUR clock keeps ticking at the same rate RELATIVE to YOU.

  • spot a
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They do age more slowly, but the difference in aging is smaller than picoseconds. The radiation in the upper atmosphere and the stress of the job, and the constant jetlag, etc cause more rapid deterioration to their health, but not increased aging.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They age more rapidly :

    for at least 3 reasons;

    1) stressful job

    2) subject to high g forces on take off

    3) exposed to higher energy cosmic rays and solar radiation than at sea level.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There is no end to the supply of airheads on this forum.

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