Re: Population modelling and relativity

G'day Andrew,

 >Here is a weird question:
 >How would stars, with different
 >relative motion, effect generation time
 >relative to Earth?  Would some worlds
 >have time pass faster or slower and
 >would the differences be enough to matter?

In absolute terms no. However if they started saying ages based on the 
length of rotations around their local star rather than converting to
Earth 
standard then you might have crewman Bloggs who's 4 turning up for duty 
with ensign Sniggledybot who's 76 (both of them only 32 Earth years old)
;)

Cheers

Beth

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