in addition to my post above, I still cannot understand why a clock actually PHYSICALLY slows down in a strong G field in relation to another clock with a G field of Earth let's say. I understand how its LIGHT waves would appear slower to a external observer but actually physically affecting...
I'd like to punch in here and say that jennifer's explanation of gravitational time dilation kind of makes sense to me.
Say an external observer watches a clock approach an event horizon of a BH... the light waves from the clock would slow to a stop and it will never actually seem to enter...
This test was actually testing gravitational time dilation.. which affects the clock more than traveling on a jet plane's speed will. Down at the surface of the Earth the gravitational field is stronger than up at let's say 40000 feet. Therefore the clock up there slows because it is in a...
I read all of this article and I must say the guy who wrote this definitley has a realistic view of things. Especially time. Time doesn't exist. We humans made it based on the rotation of the earth. What time really is, is just MOTION and the measurement of it.
There is simply no...
It would probably be the biggest discovery known to mankind if we found out how to counteract the "force" of gravity. It kind of seems impossible; given that GR is correct, gravity is geometric, and is a result of curved spacetime.
Perhaps if we found out about the "dark energy" that's...