On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 1/3/2014 7:24 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> wrote: > >> Jason, >> >> If the acceleration is the same, the slowing of clock time will be the >> same... Doesn't matter where it is. Or equivalently (by the principle of >> equivalence) it could be standing 'still' in a strong gravitational field. >> >> Edgar >> >> > > Okay but this is certainly not what happens. If you spent 4 minutes > accelerating and came back, there would not be a 4 year age difference when > Pam returned. > > > Right. Edgar is just wrong. The same applies to the gravitational field. > The time dilatation is purely a geometrical effect. Lewis Carroll > Epstein's little book, "Relativity Visualized" provides a nice explanation > and examples. > Brent, I would have thought that the effect of the gravitational field ( equating acceleration and deceleration to gravity) is just like its effect on GPS system and to my knowledge is not geometrical Richard > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
