thomas pendrake
Temporal Novice
It's called the Special Theory of Relativity. Look up "time dilation" , there are several sites online that explain it and have plug-in formulae that allow you to find required speeds to achieve a desired time dilation. astronauts in Earth orbit can measure the difference in their subjective time and the time on Earth. To do so they must have an atomic clock or something else that accurate. The experiment in which one astronaut from America will spend a year in orbit and his identical twin will stay on Earth will have a time difference of about .014 second,