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Quote from: Thebox on 13/07/2016 15:04:53An objective mind likes to play spot the difference, yet if a spaceship left Earth and travelled at high speed for a million light years and their clock slowed down, the slowing of the clock is only relative to the left behind Earth clock and not relative to the space and time the spaceship is passing through. People miss the huge point that the time dilation of one clock is only relative to another clock and relative to nothing else, a clock is not time. This is partially true because all clocks are slower than the clock of the universe at the center of the universe. What you say is true that we use the Earth clock as the reference. the Earth clock is slightly slower than the universe clock. Yet it is our reference plane. People go crazy over how one reference clock varies with another. Since we live in a linear portion of space time, we can observe Einsteins time differences. Yet he did not understand that this universe has a fixed reference point. We measure the speed of light with respect to our Earth. If we went to an area of pure free space it would measure slightly higher. Within a dense gravitational field area it will measure much less. Unfortunately many people tend to believe that the strange universe of Einstein is true. One big problem is the Doppler effect in which the frontal mass is larger than the rearward mass. In addition the frontal time is faster in the front and slower in the rear with the geometric mean equal to Einstein but the actual time when compared to the clock of the universe is the same. therefore true time is invarient and true ruler is also invariant. This is self evident to me but people are fooled by the MM experiment which is invalid since photonic energy adjusts to the gravitational field they encounter.
An objective mind likes to play spot the difference, yet if a spaceship left Earth and travelled at high speed for a million light years and their clock slowed down, the slowing of the clock is only relative to the left behind Earth clock and not relative to the space and time the spaceship is passing through. People miss the huge point that the time dilation of one clock is only relative to another clock and relative to nothing else, a clock is not time.
Great. Now test it and find you are wrong, as has been done already by general relativity. You seem to get hung up on 'a clock is not time'. Of course it isn't. Time is an abstract concept. A clock measures atomic vibrations or another form of change. Clocks tell us that depending on the energy of a system, atoms vibrate faster or slower relative to other systems. Since all atoms are universally identical, this must mean that time passes at a rate dependent on the properties of any given system.