Thanks Ben. I have limited internet access these days so I didn't check til just now. You're right, time is slower closer to a gravitational source relative to time farther away. So much for that.
Matt > On Jun 15, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Benjamin Udell <bud...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Matt, as I amateurishly understand it, a gravitational field is an > accelerational field, so a distant observer outside of it and at rest with > respect to it will see the clocks there ticking more slowly (time dilation) > than the observer's own. On the other hand, if you were orbiting a planet > fast enough, the speed of your orbit might result (relativistically, not > mechanically) in your clock's ticking slower than the planet-based ones, in > the view of the aforementioned distant observer. Indeed, on return to earth, > your clock, placed side by side with an earthbound twin, would be seen to be > behind the time. > > - Best, Ben > >> On 6/15/2014 1:05 PM, Matt Faunce wrote: >> Isn't the big bang now considered a slow birth? If so, since General >> Relativity says clocks in a stronger gravitational field move faster than >> clocks in weaker fields, and since everything was in such close proximity >> right after the big bang and thus was in stronger gravity, and since we >> should count the years back to the date of the big bang making sure to >> adjust for the contraction of time, isn't it plausible that this places the >> big event an infinite number of years ago? >> >> I doubt this is right since I've never heard it before. Nonetheless it shows >> what shaky ground I'm on when I talk about the extremities of time. >> >> Matt >> >> On Jun 15, 2014, at 11:41 AM, "Stephen C. Rose" <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > >
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