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TIME DILATION

TO THE FUTURE Have you ever thought of time traveling? Trying to know about your future? What will happen next? How would you look when you become old? I'm pretty sure you have. And you also might have thought that it would be practically impossible. But there was a man who once traveled through time. He is Sergei Krikalev, was a Russian astronaut, has a record of 803.371 days spent in space. He actually traveled through time to his future by 0.02 seconds. Here, what he experienced is not time traveling but time dilation.                                        TIME DILATION There are many ways to explain time dilation. It can be said as the difference between the time in two clocks, each having their individual velocity or the difference between Gravitational potential between their locations. To be put in simple words, time dilation is the process of slowing down the clocks bec...

KALPANA CHAWLA A JOURNEY FROM HARYANA TO SPACE

 KALPANA CHAWLA Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut, born and raised in India. She was the youngest of the four children born to Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanjyothi Chawla on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, Haryana, India. She was the first Indian-born woman to go to space.                                                      She came from a family where everyone believes that "a person's hard work defines his character". Her father Banarasi Lal Chawla had a hard time settling down. He had done every job which can provide for his family. With his hard time settling down, his wife Sanjyothi looked after the children. At that time in India, education for girls was not thought of as necessary, but they were always supportive and made sure that their children's education. Kalpana was the youngest child in the family and her curiosity about how everything ...