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I've got the start of a plot forming in my mind, and I'm wondering if it's likely to be supported by physics at all.
My basic understanding:
when astronauts go to the International Space Station, due to the speed at which it is travelling, time passes ever-so-slightly slower for them. This effect also must be compensated for in satellites for GPS, or their clocks go wrong.
This effect becomes more notable at higher speeds, approaching light speed.
So, if a satellite was orbiting Earth fast enough (with whatever thrusters needed to prevent it slingshotting into space) then time would go much slower on the satellite compared to on earth, am I correct?
The second part of my design is that this satellite is occupied by an upper class caste of people, who use drugs to "overclock" their minds and then remote control avatars on the planet, using a system which works significantly faster than any human brain could, so has sufficiently fast responses for the avatars. In this method, the upper caste can live for hundreds of years as avatars on the planet.
My questions are:
1: Would time dilation produce a sufficient effect to allow this?
2: would it have any effect if the satellite was itself spinning at a high speed, with the axis perpendicular to the direction of travel, resulting in a uniform higher speed on the outside of the satellite without the satellite itself moving unrealistically fast around the planet?
3: Would it be possible to relay information back and forth between two objects which operate at different time speeds? are there limitations on this? I understand that they have contact with the ISS so it must be possible. Would the waves be blue- or red-shifted by the difference in the speed of time at the source and destination?
General premise is that this is a terraforming company, with skilled engineers overseeing the hundreds-year long terraforming projects, without sacrificing their lifetimes.
My basic understanding:
when astronauts go to the International Space Station, due to the speed at which it is travelling, time passes ever-so-slightly slower for them. This effect also must be compensated for in satellites for GPS, or their clocks go wrong.
This effect becomes more notable at higher speeds, approaching light speed.
So, if a satellite was orbiting Earth fast enough (with whatever thrusters needed to prevent it slingshotting into space) then time would go much slower on the satellite compared to on earth, am I correct?
The second part of my design is that this satellite is occupied by an upper class caste of people, who use drugs to "overclock" their minds and then remote control avatars on the planet, using a system which works significantly faster than any human brain could, so has sufficiently fast responses for the avatars. In this method, the upper caste can live for hundreds of years as avatars on the planet.
My questions are:
1: Would time dilation produce a sufficient effect to allow this?
2: would it have any effect if the satellite was itself spinning at a high speed, with the axis perpendicular to the direction of travel, resulting in a uniform higher speed on the outside of the satellite without the satellite itself moving unrealistically fast around the planet?
3: Would it be possible to relay information back and forth between two objects which operate at different time speeds? are there limitations on this? I understand that they have contact with the ISS so it must be possible. Would the waves be blue- or red-shifted by the difference in the speed of time at the source and destination?
General premise is that this is a terraforming company, with skilled engineers overseeing the hundreds-year long terraforming projects, without sacrificing their lifetimes.