How space travel might affect the aging process 6 Articles

by Michael Grossman

The majority of writers who chose to respond to this essay seem to have misunderstood special relativity and gotten lost in the so-called Twin Paradox without discussing the physiological effects of living in space on the ...read more

by hibernianscribe

Einstein postulated that if a set of identical twins were separated and one traveled in space at speeds well beyond the speed of light (320,000kms per hour), this is presently impossible, on return, the static twin would h...read more

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by Nancy L. Young-Houser

"The problem with Einstein's paradox is that it doesn't fold in biology-specifically, space radiation and the biology of aging," says Frank Cucinotta, NASA's chief scientist for radiation studies at the Johnson Space Cente...read more

by Keith Godsoe

I believe the answer to this question is very straight forward: In short, space travel (barring multiple scientific breakthroughs) will NEVER affect the aging process. A young Albert Einstein once shared the same dream ...read more

by Mark Wellber

I think that space travel could affect the aging process only in a good way. This means that if you would travel through space than you would become younger. Rumors like if you would travel through space a long time, t...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

~=SPECULATIVE=~ Being without any more than 'I think so' as support for answering this question I would like to describe my perspective and provide my understanding about the 'unknown'. No doubt, we are going 'out t...read more