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Time Traveler
published by the WGBH Educational Foundation
This NOVA website simulates travel to distant stars and back in a spaceship that can move at various percentages of the speed of light. You set the spaceship speed and choose your destination star, and the simulation calculates the time of travel as measured on Earth and inside the spaceship. Text describes the "twin paradox" of the theory of relativity and also the 1971 test of its prediction using airliners and atomic clocks.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Relativity
- Special Relativity
= Time Dilation
- Informal Education
- High School
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- application/shockwave
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Access Rights: Free access
Restriction: © 2010 WGBH Educational Foundation
Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords: Relativity, twin paradox
Record Creator: Metadata instance created October 15, 2011 by Ed Lee
Record Updated: Oct 15, 2011 by Ed Lee
Last Update
when Cataloged:		 January 3, 2010
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AIP Format
(WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 2010), WWW Document, (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/).
AJP/PRST-PER
Time Traveler (WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 2010), <https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/>.
APA Format
Time Traveler. (2010, January 3). Retrieved February 8, 2025, from WGBH Educational Foundation: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/
Chicago Format
WGBH Educational Foundation. Time Traveler. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, January 3, 2010. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/ (accessed 8 February 2025).
MLA Format
Time Traveler. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2010. 3 Jan. 2010. 8 Feb. 2025 <https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/>.
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@misc{ Title = {Time Traveler}, Publisher = {WGBH Educational Foundation}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {8 February 2025}, Month = {January 3, 2010}, Year = {2010} }
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