How Einstein’s relativistic ideas affect our lives

Einstein change our vision about the universe, time and space. Mental experiments (as the twin paradox), mathematic theories and the great event of general relativity proved with the solar eclipse of 1919 that the time and space are relatives to a reference system, and not absolute as Newton described. Besides that, the light has a constant velocity and for this reason the time and space are variables, in counterpart the way we think before about time.

But was is this about?

My life remains the same after this great discovery? This not change my life at all, and my beliefs about the universe, right? No!!! This changes a lot! We know that to feel the relativity effects we need to have an acceleration beyond normal, so it’s hard to measure the effects of the changing time. We need a very meaningful acceleration to feel actually the effects of dilated time.

But we can feel a lot of consequences about the relativity and it’s subtle changes that affects our perception about reality that can be applied in the biologic evolution.

We don’t need to understand deeply all the complexity of this theory and how this affects our reality, but we need to understand the basic part: time is relative!

But what this means?