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Why you age slower on a plane?

According to the theory of relativity, the faster you travel, the slower time will pass for you. While the effect may be small, it is still significant. For instance, if you were to embark on a transatlantic flight from London to New York, the time displayed on your watch would be slightly behind that of a watch left on the ground by a ten-millionth of a second. This seemingly minuscule difference in timekeeping actually translates to you aging a fraction more slowly than if you had chosen to stay at home.

The Hafele-Keating experiment, conducted in 1971 by physicists Joseph C. Hafele and Richard E. Keating, stands as a seminal test of Einstein's theories of relativity. At the heart of the experiment were highly precise cesium atomic clocks, which served as the tools to investigate the effects of time dilation predicted by special and general relativity.

Cesium atomic clocks operate based on the vibrations of cesium atoms, which resonate at a specific frequency. The stability of these vibrations allows for incredibly accurate timekeeping. In the context of the experiment, the researchers strategically placed atomic clocks on commercial airliners that circumnavigated the globe in opposing directions.

Einstein's theory of special relativity, formulated in 1905, predicts that time is not absolute but rather relative to the observer's motion. Specifically, time dilation occurs when an object is in motion relative to an observer at rest. Clocks in motion appear to run more slowly, an effect proportional to the object's velocity. This concept was a fundamental departure from classical Newtonian physics, challenging the notion of a universal and absolute time.

The Hafele-Keating experiment tested these principles by sending atomic clocks on flights. Clocks traveling eastward, in the direction of the Earth's rotation, were expected to experience less elapsed time than stationary clocks due to their high speed. Conversely, clocks flying westward against the Earth's rotation were anticipated to register more elapsed time.

The results of the experiment were in line with the predictions of special relativity. Clocks that flew eastward recorded less time compared to their stationary counterparts, while clocks flying westward recorded more time. This experimental validation added significant weight to the revolutionary ideas introduced by Einstein in the early 20th century and demonstrated the practical implications of relativity on our understanding of time. The success of the Hafele-Keating experiment underscored the profound impact of Einstein's theories on our comprehension of space, time, and the nature of the universe.

Kidnapped and experimented on by aliens but I was in the control group so nothing happened

I was tagged by @marythegizka and tried to do experiments with my image of Revan using picrew . Thank you sm!:) Actually, this lady was meant to be Revan before the Mandalorian War but ended up with being Alexandra Forst, a smuggler and pseudo-space explorer, though. She mostly looks pretty annoyed, sceptical, serious or even disappoined, as she's not crazy about the idea of getting caught up in searching for Star Maps and standing against the Sith and Darth Malak at all. And, the last but not the least, she doesn't fancy having to be led up by Bastila as well. I have no idea why she has such big ears, only a guess that it may've happened because sha has to hear some bullshit said by Jedi masters and Bastila at times.

Tagging @for-the-love-of-starwars @yaninab @theowlhousefanboy (if it's interesting for you) and those who'd like to give it a try.:)

P.S. A girl with short hair could be Revan during the war and she might have braids before the war... I'm not sure, though.

We shined a blue light—totally not a blue light thing we got as a toy thing—over our fluffy pillow :D

v <close ups> v - some close ups of are other pictures than the one above.

Either we're insane, or there are tiny glowing dots that look cool.

the clickbait here is... very earnest. like if a video popped up in your recommendations about freaking Eragon for the PS2, would you click on that? i wouldn't click that.

so we're trying a little... experiment.

Mind the clickbait – this is a video about Eragon for PS2. Why did I make a video about Eragon for PS2? Because it is the entertaining kind of movie tie-in schlock. And because it hurt my soul.

so i tried to clickbait. here's how it went

clickbait is not a regular thing for me, because i'm not somebody who wants to "grow my channel." in all honesty, i really just want the video i invested time into making to hit something like 100 views. that, to me, is what "success" looks like – i've hit it with over half of my stream highlight reels so far, and all i want to do is maintain that same momentum. (any more views and the comment section starts to become a source of anxiety.)

unsurprisingly, my "successful" videos are about games that people actually want to watch. think like Mari0 having a niche creator community, or people who look up the true final boss in the latest Kirby game. videos that aren't as successful are about over-represented games like Splatoon, or games that are too niche or out-of-date like Frogger.

typically i have the luxury of making whatever videos i want, because i'm not trying to "grow." but the latest video i put out was a bit of a special case – i knew upfront that practically nobody would want to watch it, and i most likely wouldn't hit my usual 100 views. but i was also highly confident that this video would be fun to watch, a breezy 8 minutes of good laughs and silly commentary.

so i asked myself: how do i get people to watch a video that i'm really confident in, when that video is about Eragon for the PS2?

i really hope i never have to look at this box art again.

let's be honest – no layperson would actually sit down and watch a video about Eragon: The Movie: The Game. if i put that in the title, no matter how much i dress it up with "This Is A Bad Game Lmao," it's going to be crickets.

people who watched the stream or heard me talk it up would absolutely be interested! but that's not enough by itself to reach 100 views; previous videos have proven this, and i only have so many friends. if i want more eyes on it, i have to play the algorithm game – and i am not well-versed in the youtube meta, so i'm flying blind here.

i got to thinking. it's a video i'm confident in. it's short, snappy and sassy, exactly my style. i think people would love it, if they clicked on it. how do i get people to click on it?

…why not just be honest?

i can feel my blood pressure rising just looking at this.

it's a kind of heavy-handed title, honestly. it's a little too on the nose, a little too disrespectful of the viewer's tastes. it is also – or at least i hoped it was when i wrote it – extremely earnest about its intentions, and surprisingly compelling in an anti-invitation kind of way. "come see what is so bad that i would not dare speak its name." that kind of thing.

the thumbnail is also cute, which helps take the edge off. should've made the text bigger, but Oh Well. it's not like that's the most important part here – it's the title that carries this one.

but did it work?

it's complicated.

i mean, i hit my goal of 100 views! that's worth celebrating! it worked just enough to reach my usual metric of success. but only just.

to see exactly what i'm talking about, we need to look at watch time, rather than views.

views and watch time, respectively, for the first 24 hours of the video.

here's the stats for the first 24 hours of the video, before the algorithm picked it up. on the watch time graph (bottom) you can see a very strong stair-step pattern; each step is somebody who watched the whole video, while the tiny bumps show people who watched the first few seconds and clicked away.

now, the wild thing is… my stats are so low that i can see this at all! i can literally go and count the number of people who have watched the whole video. it has the effect of making me rather neurotic about my analytics, but that's a discussion for another day…

either way, the point is that we can see 10 or 11 people actually watched the whole thing, out of 35 views in the first day. this is a really strong proportion, and it's mostly because my friends are the first to watch the videos i put out. (i'm really glad you people like my nonsense 💙)

as mentioned, though, i don't have 100 friends. that's fine, youtube will find more eyes for my video once the algorithm picks it up.

the full set of impressions and views, respectively, with a line marking the first 24 hours.

by looking at the impressions you can see youtube's algorithm slowly kick in; it was quite the slow burn this time, and i think that's because i released the video on a weekend. regardless, we can see views tick up at the same rate as impressions, more or less, gaining almost 100 more views on top of the 35 views it got in the first 24 hours.

these views were mostly driven by the home screen:

by the way, which of you weirdos have notifications enabled for my channel? i mean, thanks! but why?

this means that people went out of their way to click on it; they were interested enough by my clickbait to say, okay fine, let's see what this nonsense is about. the clickbait more or less worked…

except that it didn't translate to watch time at all.

the full set of watch time, with a line marking the first 24 hours.

after the first 24 hours, a grand total of six people have watched the whole thing, out of the 100 more views it's gotten since! that's a lower proportion than most of my other highlights videos get on average.

we can break this down even further by looking at watch time specifically from people who found the video on their home screen, because YouTube lets you look at that:

kinda scary how granular you can get with this, honestly!

unlike the stair-step pattern mentioned earlier, the big slope in the middle of this graph is made of a bunch of people who only watched bits and pieces of the video. in other words, the slope represents all the people who clicked on it, figured out what the game was, and then stopped watching. so the clickbait did work, but it translated to very little meaningful engagement.

now, this could be for any number of reasons! folks who watched the video know that i started with a hook in the first 30 seconds, kept my introductory explanation brief, and then followed that up with all the best parts of the stream. i do think that, as a highlights reel, this is one of the strongest ones i've ever put together.

crucially, though, the title does not state that it's a stream highlights reel. and highlights reels are not everyone's cup of tea! maybe they were expecting a video essay, or some other kind of scripted video – something that was more discussion rather than reaction. maybe people got mad at the clickbait, so they clicked on it just long enough to get an answer and left out of spite! or maybe somebody gave my video a fair shake and just didn't like my style. i mean, it's whatever. people can like what they like.

like i said at the beginning, i'm not trying to Grow My Channel or make an empire out of this. all i really care about is one thing: if i put some effort into something and show it off to the world, i want a few people to see it and enjoy it. that's it! so when it comes to analytics i'm not looking at raw numbers, those don't matter to me. i'm looking for evidence that people like what i spent all that time making.

so my takeaway from this experiment is that clickbait is for people who like raw numbers. it'll get you clicks, sure, but those clicks are as vapid as clicks get. views don't mean much in the long run if viewers don't actually want to watch the video in the first place.

anyway, now that the algorithm has run its course, i've switched the video back to a standard title and thumbnail.

as you can see, eragon was an early adopter of youtuber face syndrome~

i like this way better, personally… but would anyone have clicked on it? who can say for sure.

this was a worthwhile experiment, though, and it reminded me of the whole reason i make videos in the first place – not to Build An Audience, but to preserve my memories in amber! i do this to collect and archive all the good times where i got to share joy with my friends – no matter whether that joy is because of the game, or in spite of it.

i'd say this title and thumbnail do a better job preserving those memories than some clickbait does.

Make sure your experiments are ✨ submissive and repeatable ✨

Here is the original contest post thing

Like last year, I am going to host a limerick contest for the month of November. There will be as-yet-to-be-determined prizes for the winners. Here are the rules:

1. Your entry should follow the traditional limerick form.

2. Your entry can include innuendo, but should not have any outright...

Every time I even think about looking at my WIP of a crossover fic between the Maximum Ride universe and the Marvel universe. I know I don't have many, if any followers. But would anyone even be kind of interested in a fic like this? Or is everyone trying to forget that Maximum Ride was even a thing? Please comment, or do whatever it is, private message me. And let me know your thoughts about this idea. If even one person would read it I would put more effort into finishing it.

me: *opens document to write* brain: let’s rethink the entire plot instead

Натворила делов. It's adventure time, baby! #me #girl #ginger #experiments #selfie #selfietime #samsunggalaxys5 #S5