A Spaceship Is Moving Past You at a Speed Very

question 43

Multiple Choice

A spaceship is moving past you at a speed very close to the speed of light.If you could somehow watch the people inside it over a long period of time,what would you conclude?

• A)They are aging more rapidly than you.
• B)Their mechanical clocks go slower than yours,but the people are aging at the same rate as you.
• C)Their time is the same as your time.
• D)They are aging more slowly than you.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance in a population, reflecting how much individual data points in the entire population deviate from the population mean.

Confidence Level

The degree of certainty or probability with which a parameter of a population is estimated.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points that are included in a sample for analysis.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.