Science fiction is full of megastructures , hulk over the rest of the futurist or exotic cities . But we are definitely not rushing towards a earth where we move a large wrapping of the population into dystopian super skyscrapers . Today , the tall structure in the earthly concern carry on to be reserved for the extremist - rich . Socio - economical deviation between world and fiction away , hold out a long way of life from the primer has peculiar effects on the head and can mess with our sense of time : Time seems to pass otherwise if you are higher up .
This is not a Einstein’s theory of relativity effect , although you could sure enough calculate the modest time dilation . The Burj Khalifa is the highest construction in the populace , with a elevation of 828 meters ( 2,717 feet ) . Itshighest penthouseis located half a kilometer ( 0.3 miles ) off the ground . Gravity warps space - clip , so the nigher you are to a heavy physical object , the slower time passes . Living in the penthouse for 70 years ( without proceed down)would make you older by about 0.08 second . Not really a major change .
Rather than measured time , it ’s the psychological meter that defecate the difference . And it all boil down to the Sun . Being so far up give you a much larger view of the Earth , stretching the horizon from a few klick to 80 kilometre ( 50 nautical mile ) if you were to live in that gamy penthouse . That means several more minutes of sunshine every day . The Sun heighten earlier and it sets later .
As reported inBusiness Insider , in the bookSupertall , designer Stefan Al discusses how the minor conflict in sunlight , in the grand scheme of thing , has a boastful shock . For object lesson , people living on the gamey floors need to wait longer before they can break their fasting during the month of Ramadan .
The impingement of the Sun and sunlight on our processing of time in our day - to - mean solar day living has long been fascinating to research worker . There are plenty of studiesthat have looked at the effects of reduce daylight in places with the highest latitude on our planet , and how this pretend humankind psychologically .
Similarly , during the summertime months at higher latitudes , habits shift as the lighter later hours make us feel that it ’s earliest than it is . Our dead body filaria are far from infallible . Experiments that have put human without suns and without clocks have testify this .
Last year,15 the great unwashed spent 40 days in a caveand when they came out at the end of the experiment they believed they had been there for 30 days .
Time is indeed proportional in more room than one .
[ H / T : Business Insider ]
