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Time dilation without gravity or speed changes?

TiredThinker July 22, 2021 at 04:08 3725 views 10 comments
Can the relative rate of time change without a gravity well or approaching light speed? Any other variables that can act on time?

Comments (10)

Down The Rabbit Hole July 22, 2021 at 10:28 #570411
Reply to TiredThinker

Wormholes, possibly.
TiredThinker July 22, 2021 at 19:04 #570578
Reply to Down The Rabbit Hole

Isn't a wormhole a gravity well?
jgill July 22, 2021 at 22:35 #570625
Grow older. At my current age it seems five minutes passes in a minute.
TiredThinker July 23, 2021 at 04:19 #570696
Reply to jgill

I hear that, but I mean more than perception but measurable differences.
khaled July 23, 2021 at 06:43 #570716
Sounds like something you should be asking physicists.
Kenosha Kid July 23, 2021 at 06:52 #570717
You don't need to approach lightspeed. Any velocity through space is at the expense of your velocity through time, which is what time dilation is. It's just that it's pretty negligible until you get to a decent fraction of lightspeed.

Any curvature of spacetime will do it. A wormhole is a valid example. There's always been talks of warp speed engines that contract the space in front of you and expand the space behind you.
Down The Rabbit Hole July 23, 2021 at 20:32 #570884
Reply to TiredThinker

Wormholes are theoretical.

I'm not sure how much gravity they are supposed to have but it's the tunnelling through spacetime that could make time travel possible. In SG1 solar flares caused them to travel through time when using the wormhole in their stargate.
Cheshire July 24, 2021 at 18:43 #571249
Reply to TiredThinker Yes and No, it doesn't require the extremes you mentioned, but it does involve the variables. The GPS is adjusted for both. One for the distance to earth's gravity as well as the speed of the satellites. I think there is an implication of an ambient time. The shape and volume of space in the absence of mass and the effect on an object without any kinetic energy. Whatever that would be.
prothero July 24, 2021 at 23:53 #571367
Acceleration and gravity are essentially equivalent and both affect time "dilation". GPS (satellites located in a lower gravity position relative to the surface of the earth) and atomic clocks flown at altitude both exhibit the predicted changes in time (rate of change).
EnPassant August 12, 2021 at 08:29 #578861
The twin paradox - if that is what you mean - is part of Special Relativity, no need for acceleration/gravity.