Gravity and Height of a Person

[pmv]

Relativistic effects I believe mean our heads age slightly faster than our feet as time runs faster the weaker gravity is. Granted the effect on time would be teeny-weeny (I believe that's the correct technical term).

 

[JTsyo]

His full name's Robert Pershing Wadlow. Also, the tallest hominids ever are humans. You're thinking of Gigantopithecus, which was a hominoid. I'm not merely being a pedant - Gigantopithecus was a quadruped, not a biped, so when it moved it was no taller than a person. Gravity also affects quadrupeds differently than bipeds, at least in terms of how the two basic body types adapt to gravity's effects.

hmm I've seen this name before, but where? :hmm:

 

[pw38]

Relativistic effects I believe mean our heads age slightly faster than our feet as time runs faster the weaker gravity is. Granted the effect on time would be teeny-weeny (I believe that's the correct technical term).

Maybe that's why my 3 year old son trips and falls. He's literally thinking faster than he can run because of time dilation effects from his brain to his feet.