Mark
If an electric field could alter the rate of flow of time, wouldn't it have been noticed?
With the proper instrumentation, we should get a hint - and we are getting closer to that point where quantum changes are becomming noticeable on advanced meters - to the extent that we don't alter the event itself - which is always the problem.
As Ron Stiffler was saying today on another subject: "The faster the scope got the more we saw and the more we understood, to a limit. Storage scopes were the butter on the bread, yet x-hertz views did and do not exist today. ...So in short, how do we view an event in real time? We don't. The only way you can view an event is if you are viewing in the same time frame as the event."
Often this proble will resolve itself semantic-wise - only through using statistics and probability. We try to record a quantum event and we alter it - but if we alter it in a predictable way, and record this by the millions - then it might be feasible to use statistical inferences to say something meaningful about the altered event.
For example, two gas lasers....
OK to change the context of that a bit - here is a query, not an answer: do you think that passing a laser beam of known frequency through a long and fully charged Tesla Coil, will alter the frequency of that beam - even by a small amount ? And would you agree that even if it is changed by only a few parts per trillion, that it would be evidence of alteration of time?
Gets a little tricky to be certain when it comes down to brass tacks... or parts per trillion.
Jones
