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Squidocto t1_j1ilxg6 wrote

Reply to comment by Scott_Abrams in Are people in the international space station experiencing time faster than us? by [deleted]

However, the question is about their experience of time, in which case the answer is no

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Low_Calligrapher_260 t1_j1j9qjx wrote

There are different kinds of experience. Basically subjective and objective. Subjective is what they are aware of of course, which is nothing pretty much. Objective would be what their watch would tell them. And in that sense, they experience less time than we do in the same, um...period?

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dazb84 t1_j1jrce9 wrote

The experience of time is always the same for any local observer. Meaning that no matter where you are you will measure time passing at a rate of exactly one second per second. This means that it makes no sense to state that time is experienced differently because it is always experienced the same for any local observer and they're the only one who can have the experience of time at that specific locality. The only time there becomes a discrepancy is when time in one locality is measured relative to something else where there is a difference in either speed or gravity.

It's basically a measurement discrepancy rather than an experiential discrepancy.

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