What led you to this suspicion?
I have two theories. [edit: theories why anyone would come up with such an idea in the first place, that is]
First, E = energy, and temperature is energy. So if temperature increases, doesn’t that increase E? And if E = mc², doesn’t that mean that either mass or the speed of light would need to speed up in order to keep up with it?
Second, although false, a lot of people are trained to believe that time stands still at 0 K. In that case, light could never escape 0 K, and as temperatures approach 0 K light would slog to a halt. If that was the case, the logical conclusion would be that speed of light would increase as temperatures rise.
Or maybe something completely different - I just thought it was a fun question to try to reverse engineer. :)
temperature is energy
No it is not. Temperature does not depend on mass, while energy does depend on mass.
If you apply thermal energy to two identical objects of different mass equally, the temperature will not be the same between them, as the object with less mass will have a higher temperature, despite the same amount of thermal energy transfer.
Not to be THAT user, but…
Hypotheses, not theories. Unless your idea has been experimentally duplicated & verified by a good (if not great) number of your peers, it is not a theory.
Again, I’m not trying to be an asshole, but it’s important to remember in science the distinction between the scientific meaning of the word as opposed to the widespread colloquial meaning of it.
Sorry for not committing to scientific standards in my pioneering research into why OP would ask such a question!
Imagine you’re coming back home with your partner one day. You see your new pair of shoes all chewed up. In the corner of the room you see your dog, looking guilty as hell. Your partner might ask you “what happened to your shoes”. You might respond “I don’t know, but I have a theory”. To which your partner might respond “well actually, that’s not a theory, that’s a hypothesis, you idiot”.
Temperature itself does not affect the speed of light - remember that space is freezing cold, and light moves through it just fine. So warmer temperatures don’t do anything with time.
If earth suddenly gained a bunch of mass, that would change things up as gravity would increase. However, we wouldn’t really notice, as everything would speed up more or less the same. We’d have to compare ourselves to someone in a system where time moves differently in order to notice.
No. What?
Time goes faster when you have things to do, and slower when you are bored.
Climate change can give you some quite unexpected things to do (due to floods, burning forests, storms etc.)
So your answer is Yes.
I don’t know, it’s the other way around for me: when I’m bored, time goes by quickly, but when I’m doing something, time goes by slowly
No.
Also it wouldn’t matter to day to day life because time is based on your frame of reference, and you’d be inside the frame of reference so it would feel exactly the same to you.
