http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html Chapter 14: "The equivalence principle has a striking consequence concerning the behavior of clocks in a gravitational field. It implies that higher clocks run faster than lower clocks. If you put a watch on top of a tower, and then stand on the ground, you will see the watch on the tower tick faster than an identical watch on your wrist. When you take the watch down and compare it to the one on your wrist, it will show more time elapsed." Note that the two watches are placed at different gravitational potentials (the alleged "gravitational time dilation" is a function of the potential difference) but experience essentially the same gravitational field. This means that, in Einsteiniana's wonderland, identical clocks placed in identical physical surroundings run at different rates, that is, there is an effect without cause. |
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