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Do you always experience the gravitational influence of other mass as you see them in your frame?

You see a galaxy far away. That galaxy is attracting you with a certain amount of gravity. I'm wondering if the gravity influence of the galaxy on you, as measured by you, always ends up being what ...
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How to properly combine kinetic and gravitational time dilation effect?

I developed a time dilation calculator that includes both kinetic (Lorentz Factor) and gravitational (Schwarzschild Metric Formula) factors to assess the time difference between Earth and satellites. ...
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Tug of war between observers in frames with different rate of time

You have a very dense hollow sphere of matter. Observer A is inside the sphere inside a rocket. Observer B is in an identical rocket outside the sphere where the ring's gravity is negligible. They are ...
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Topological illustration of spacetime dilation: which function should I use for isometric lines spacing?

Scientific popularization, when it comes to illustrating spacetime dilation around massive objects, often relies on the description of a two-dimensional square-grid, which can be regarded as a cross-...
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Time dilation and angular velocity

Is angular velocity (the horizontal rotation of a massive disc falling through the air) sensitive to time dilation or invariant to it? Will its angular velocity (speed of rotation) increase, decrease ...
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GR contribution to time dilation when both clocks are falling freely

When reading simplified explanations of time dilation experienced by satellites, such as those used for the GPS and other satellite navigation systems, the time dilation is often presented as having ...
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Gravitational Time Dilation: How to find the time difference between orbits at different radii? [closed]

I want to calculate the difference in time measured by a clock at on earths surface (r=6000km), and a geostationary satellite (r=26000km). My approach is as follows: For simplicity, we consider curves ...
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Time dilation in quantum gravity

In General Relativity, time moves slower near massive objects where spacetime is curved stronger. In quantum gravity, the gravitational force is represented by the quantum field that refers to the ...
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How is gravitational time dilation different from the time dilation from Special Reativity? [duplicate]

In Special Relativity, acceleration i.e. a changing velocity 4-vector results in time dilation, that is asymmetric aging of observers. In General Relativity, the 4-vector does not change along a ...
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Effect of gravitational time dilation on a classic weighted pendulum clock versus a hybrid pendulum clock with a battery

A classical pendulum clock is powered by gravitational potential energy by weights. While a hybrid pendulum clock is somehow propelled by electric current. Both have the same pendulum swing as the ...
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Observing an event horizon while approaching one

A thought crossed my mind that I realized was hard to conceptualize so I decided to simplify the question by putting it in terms of event horizons. If I am an observer approaching black hole "A&...
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Photoelectric effect under the influence of gravitational time dilation

If the energy of a photon increases under the influence of time dilation in a gravitational field, does this have an effect on the photoelectric effect? Does this mean that the photoelectric effect in ...
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How is time affected by the bending of space-time?

By Newton's Laws, we can calculate the effect of gravity, but he didn't give the actual reason for gravity. I searched the internet for it, but all the answers have this "bending of space-time" stuff. ...
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Would the effect of time dilation alone cause the same existing known precession advance of the perihelion of say, Mercury?

Or does this advance also require the bending of space to arrive at the same outcome. In other words if there were no bending of space would the effect of time dilation alone cause an equivalent ...
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Is there a formula for gravitational time dilation at the cosmological scale?

There is a standard formula for gravitational time dilation used in eg the operation of the global positioning system. It is based on the integration of g(h) where g is a function relating ...

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