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I saw the headline and I seriously assumed someone was claiming to have discovered that people in some areas of the world experienced accelerated aging. (In ca
by KerrAvon 4y ago
I saw the headline and I seriously assumed someone was claiming to have discovered that people in some areas of the world experienced accelerated aging.
(In case it's changed, the headline when I read it: "Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates")
- daveslash 4y agoThat is exactly how I took it at first. Came to the comment thread to see if I was the only one.
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y agoYeah, I came here for the obligatory Doppler shift joke. I don't see one, so I'll give it a try: Maybe they're called Blue Zones because they're moving towards us so quickly that we can see all their wrinkles more clearly. So they're not really centenarians, but they just look older!
- 867-5309 4y agothought you were going to say "moving towards us so quickly that their electromagnetic wavelengths are blueshifted"
- andyferris 4y agoThat's right - I was definitely thinking of the twin paradox! (For those that don't know, the twin paradox is a theory of relativity thing - one twin travels out into space and back to Earth near the speed of light and afterward the stationary twin is older than the travelling twin, so the blue-shifted twin "lives longer" at least from Earth's point of view).
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