Question: An aging rock star in a technologically advanced future becomes despondent about growing old. After learning a bit about special relativity from his physicist friend,

An aging rock star in a technologically advanced future becomes despondent about growing old. After learning a bit about special relativity from his physicist friend, he decides to spend the rest of his life in a spaceship traveling very close to the speed of light in order to slow his aging. Does he perceive his aging to slow?
Yes. Time runs slow for observers moving close to the speed of light.
Yes. Time runs fast for observers moving close to the speed of light.
No. Time runs fast for observers moving close to the speed of light.
No. From his standpoint, he is not moving so he perceives the passageof time to be the same as if he was not traveling close to the speed of light.

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