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What is the exact mechanism by which time dilates?
What is the exact mechanism by which time dilates for a fast moving object?
Can the time dilation be explained by any theory other than relativity?
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What is the maximum time dilation between two objects, if one is standing still and the other is moving at $c$?
What is the maximum ratio in the rate of change in time in reference to object $A$ which is standing still and object $B$ which is moving at the speed of light?
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The bigger the mass, the more time slows down. Why is this?
If I were to stand by a pyramid, which weighs about 20 million tons, I would slow down by a trillion million million million of second. Don't know if that's exactly right, but you get the point. Also, ...
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Does photon possesses no time to cover any arbitrary distance?
Photon travel 8 minutes (with speed $c$) from the sun to reach the earth. Any particle (or space-ship) with velocity $0.99 c$ covers the same distance (93 millions km) within less than 2 minutes ...
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When moving fast Time slows down Vs speeds up
I was watching an old cartoon movie where a scientist makes a gadget, which when bound on the wrist, freezes the movement of the whole world. So, that one may do 100s of things in a single second. ...
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Speed of Entropy change
If time in systems moving with different speed goes differently, does speed of entropy change differ in these systems?
(is "speed of entropy change" a valid term? can we compare them?)
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Time slowing down problem
When someone moves, time slows down for him. Let, a man standing still and another moving very very very fast, this happens for an hour (as measured by the standing man). Time has moved slower for the ...
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How can time be relative?
I don't understand how time can be relative to different observers, and I think my confusion is around how I understand what time is.
I have always been told (and thought) that time is basically a ...
