This is from the Mustang group, but it fits pretty well here. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com
-----Original Message----- From: mustanga...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mustanga...@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Kirk Harrell Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:50 PM To: Mustang List Subject: M.Aero: Time Machine? What do you think about when you are out in the shop lost in your private world for hours on end, drilling, deburring, clecoing, unclecoing, etc. First time around I thought about the enjoyment of flying the plane, taking my kids and wife places. Looked forward to parking the bird at Sun N Fun and Oshkosh. I've done all those things now. My wife was not too anxious to climb into the bird. She had never been too hesitant in the rented Cherokee... The first long cross country with my wife was after I had quite a few hours on the bird. Took her 400 miles to see her mother on Mother's Day. Pretty sweet deal, or she might have backed out. We were out mid-morning, ate lunch with mom and visited all afternoon, and flew home just in time to beat the sunset. That's a fourteen hour round trip by car... We have a time machine! So anyway, I'm out in the shop feverishly trying to put this bird back in the air before the summer is all gone. But I'm not thinking about the same things this time around. Just trying to think of ways to go faster on less fuel. But I got off on a whacky tangent last night... the Theory of General Relativity. Huh? Well there would be a lot of explaining to go with it, but put simply, a clock would appear to tick more slowly in a moving body, than in one at rest. In other words, miniscule as it might be, time moves slower when we are in motion compared to those who are not in motion. This isn't significant until you approach the speed of light, but,.. but... When we fly our Mustangs, we come back cronolocically younger than those who stayed on the ground. Therefore we do have a time machine that keeps us younger than those who do not fly. Maybe nano-seconds younger, but still.. younger. Kirk
