Anime and Physics...

[RWB]

So I watched Voices of a Distant Star.... it's a really great short movie! But man I am a bit lost about the physics of it. Basically two young lovers are parted by the distance of space, growing further and further apart. Naturally it takes 20 minutes for messages to cross between Mars and Earth, then months at Jupiter, and a year at pluto... and 8 years from Sigma(solar system). Yet the girl remains 15 years old as she travels to these other places sending messages and the boy grows to the age of 24 on Earth.

OMG can someone help me here!? I can only guess she is traveling with FTL ability... and the messages are simply not reaching him so if the journey over all takes her only 1 year then she could arrive back home before the transmissions arrive?

Better yet has anyone watched this movie yet?

[Thrax]

Einstein's theory of relativity. The closer to the speed of light you are, the slower time is for you relative to a stationary position. Because the boy was on earth, which is stationary, his time was "Faster" and more "Regular" than the girl's. They were both communicating in the same plane of space, but at different points in the continuity of time -- in effect, she was communicating with the future each time she sent a message, which as the theory goes, without compensation, the messages may or may not ever arrive.

[Black Hawk]

It's like getting bitch-slapped upside the head with a scientific brick. :sawed:

[profdlp]

Even mo' better. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars) :cool: