On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM, leaking pen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something at this point as well. Isn't dilation an > effect of VELOCITY and not acceleration? > Both! General Relativity states that time dilation occurs in gravity fields and with acceleration (G-Force) which mimics gravity, and that the 2 are equivalent the put in a box small enough that you don't detect and geometrical differences, you CAN NOT tell the difference between the 2, essentially the same thing. It is important to realize that this form of time dilation is asymmetric, absolute and non paradoxical, if I an in a gravity well and my clock runs slow compared to yours floating in free space, both of us will agree that my clock is slower and yours is faster. Separately, Special Relativity has a different argument that is quite paradoxical, that is 2 bodies are in relative motion (not acceleration) both observers have clocks running faster than the others clock. Essentially both insist they have the faster rate of time and than the other frame since his clock is clearly running slow by comparison, these observations are symmetrical, contradictory and I believe I can show this with other thought experiments to be beyond absurd, but that is beside the point. Since the Special Relativity version of time dilation can't be used to explain this since it is zero at zero relative velocity and slowly increases reaching toward the speed of light, and the moment the object is released it's time dilation due to acceleration would be assumed to instantly go to zero (no longer accelerating) and SR's version of time dilation would not have begun at all. Before the clock's time rate could recover based on SR it would have hit the floor or gone out of observation range and be effected by massive Doppler distortions of time.
