note that GPS satellites have experienced that phenomenon. since they experience different gravity field (in fact they are in freefall, unlike us walkers), they experience time dilation/contraction
2014-02-27 0:40 GMT+01:00 John Berry <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:12 PM, leaking pen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not at all, however, if you are accelerating at a rate away from the body >> that the clock is falling towards, >> > > No offence to you, but I thought that misunderstanding this was impossible. > You are not accelerating away from a gravity source the clock is falling > towards. > > These are 2 separate experiments related toEinstein's thought experiment > about either being in an elevator and being subjected to uniform > acceleration in free space (no gravity). > OR being in an elevator sitting on the ground. > > You can't tell which test you are undergoing everything seems identical, > So I am adding a test, you drop a clock, the instant the clock on the > accelerating elevator is let go of it assume a constant relative velocity > to every other object in space that is confusingly termed an inertial > reference frame, it is no longer accelerated. It can not be readily > justified to experience time dilation from acceleration it isn't undergoing. > > So either the same happens in the elevator test on the planet in the > gravity field also (which would be very dramatic in a black holes time > dilation field) OR it doesn't and the equivalence principle falls over, at > least wounded. > > As far as I am aware and can tell from looking, neither conclusion is > expected, but one must be true, or something even stranger that is also not > predicted a time dilation aura effecting objects around an accelerating > object. > > The rest you wrote as far as I could tell did not relate to what I am > proposing. > > John >
