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You need ridiculous speeds for time dilation to really kick in though. Mathematically, it starts as soon as an object moves. But if a spaceship travels at 90 % of light speed (0.9 c), their local time moves just approximately at half speed compared to local time on earth. A year for the astronauts is just over 2 years on earth.

At 0.995 c, the ship clock runs 10 x slower.

At 0.999 c, 22 x slower. Then if you push the turbo button to 0.9999 c, 71 x slower.

The fastest man-made object to date is the Parker Solar Probe, at 0.059 c.



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