What's the fastest can ever take your Scirocco? - more numbers

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

Aaron in London wrote:
> My mistake - the experimenters didn't use a U2 (got
> mixed up with the anisotropy experiment), in fact
> they used 2 commercial airliners equipped with atomic
> clocks. They had a third clock on the ground and  all
> three were perfectly synced. Then they sent one off
> east, and the other off west so that both
> circumnavigated the globe. Then they looked at the
> clocks. And, almost exactly as predicted by the equation
> E=MC2 - time passed slower on the aircraft than it did
> on the ground. This was widely accepted as empirical
> proof of Einstein's theory. And if the time/velocity
> component, works - then it's extremely likely that the 
> energy/mass component also works

Oh how I hate to go even more off thread then we are already, but it's
late, and I'm not tired (even though I should be) and I'm not drunk
(even though I should be).

Lets say these were jet airliners were flying at 500 MPH for ~50 hours
to completely circumnavigate, 24,901.55 miles at the equator, the
globe. Now each clock has traveled faster then the stationary clock on
the ground. While the clocks on the jets have elapsed less cumulative
time then the clock on the ground, these are only relative speeds.

The 500 MPH each jet was traveling is relative to the surface of the
earth. Now the earth is orbiting around the sun at 67,062 MPH relative
to the location of the sun. The Sun is orbiting around the center of
the milky way galaxy, at 559,000 MPH relative to the center of the
milky way. And the milky way is moving toward at about the universe
somewhere between 300,000 MPH and 1,340,000 MPH as relative to the
neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. The last I heard the universe is still
expanding.

My question is, what is our consciously perceived notion of time
relative to? If it is to the speed of our planet, solar system or
galaxy, and if there are alien life forms out there on other systems
and/or galaxies moving at different rates. Are their entire
civilizations are moving at completely different rates then we are?
Are we a fast moving or slow moving (as in Canada, eh?) civilization?
If this is the case then presumably the slower the planet, solar
system or galaxy moves the more time elapses and the more advanced
time will permit those civilization(s) to advance.

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-Marc