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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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Why does time flow more slowly on the ground than on a mountain? [duplicate]

I'm reading the book The Order of Time by 'Carlo Rovelli', which says that time flows more slowly on the ground than on a mountain. It also says that the presence of matter changes how time flows, and ...
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