If you live on the top floor of a skyscraper, you may age faster than those living in the ground floor, American scientists have claimed citing Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado, have demonstrated that one of Dr Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity that the further away from the earth you are, the faster time passes works even on a human scale.
That means — even though the differences are tiny — people will really age faster if they live on the top floor of a skyscraper than in a bungalow, the Telegraph reported.
The discovery confirms a theory first proposed by Einstein that clocks run faster the further away from the ground they are — a phenomenon that works in space rockets and aircraft as the forward movement offsets the height.
Using a pair of the world’s most precise clocks, physicists at the NIST, discovered that simply going upstairs will make you age faster.
If one of the clocks was moved just a foot higher, then it ran a little bit faster — albeit by a tiny fraction of a second, they found.