Timeline for Relativity and variable time - there is an alternate formulation where time is always linear. Has it been studied?
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| Mar 7 at 17:31 | comment | added | John Doty | @EricSmith The way we do that with GPS is that the process locates the receiver in spacetime in the GPS coordinate system. That makes a uniform definition of time possible for all GPS users, regardless of their state of motion: they must simply accept the authority of GPS over their local clocks. That, in turn, could lead to conceiving of local processes as being subject to the kind of effects the OP postulates. And while that's not the way we teach the theory, sometimes it's how we apply it, "correcting" clocks for altitude, for example. Nothing wrong with it. | |
| Mar 7 at 16:32 | comment | added | Eric Smith | @BobT : any formulation of time you create will have to come to grips with the relativity of simultaneity, which means that no uniform definition of time is possible that applies to all observers. It also means that any mapping between users' coordinate times will necessarily involve not only time, but also space, because a "moving" observers clocks will be found by the "stationary" observer to be out of phase with one another. | |
| Mar 7 at 16:11 | comment | added | WillO | You can measure time in any units you like, as long as you keep track of those units. But you shouldn't expect an arbitrary choice of units to tell you anything interesting about how the world works. | |
| Mar 7 at 13:22 | comment | added | Confuse-ray30 | Why was this disliked? Clearly the OP has thought about the topic but doesn't come from a physics background. | |
| Mar 7 at 13:20 | answer | added | Confuse-ray30 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 6 at 21:05 | comment | added | John Doty | Huh? Coordinate time is mainstream physics, and very useful. | |
| Mar 6 at 20:33 | history | closed |
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| Mar 6 at 7:20 | answer | added | Joseph_Kopp | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 6 at 4:44 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 6 at 1:52 | history | asked | BobT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |