RE: Special Relativity. Lifetime.
December 5, 2019 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2019 at 10:19 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
Clocks need to be synchronized, presumably, because we can observe discrepancies in their synchronization if they emerge. That is all we have access to, not time. I don't know how atomic clocks work, but I doubt they are tapping into anything called time either, they are independent of it. All clocks present some form of observable motion or change to our minds, and our minds abstract the notion of time from this physical motion.
The formula doesn't change because of this, but perhaps the conclusions drawn from it do. Again, disclaimer, I don't fully know what physicists mean by terms such as time dilation. But it seems incorrect to conclude time has changed in any way based on the physical changes of a clock. It is like assuming time stops whenever I stop a clocks hand from moving. Or perhaps like having a ruler made of rubber, and assuming the world is constricting whenever I stretch the ruler out.
The formula doesn't change because of this, but perhaps the conclusions drawn from it do. Again, disclaimer, I don't fully know what physicists mean by terms such as time dilation. But it seems incorrect to conclude time has changed in any way based on the physical changes of a clock. It is like assuming time stops whenever I stop a clocks hand from moving. Or perhaps like having a ruler made of rubber, and assuming the world is constricting whenever I stretch the ruler out.
