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Rob-NYC
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Does time dilation in relative UNIFORM motion REALLY happen or is it merely a perspective from one reference frame relative to another as in the simple case where objects appear smaller the further away they are from the perspective of an observer in a particular reference frame?
Putting it another way, how can both clocks really be ticking slower than the other in two relative frames of uniform motion? Since both reference frames are part of one reality, how can they contradict each other by such an illogical assertion? Shouldn't all perspectives reveal a consistency in the same Universe instead of a stark contradiction as if the observers were in separate Universes? As for evidence, how can the clocks on an orbiting GPS satellite be affected by time dilation due to the component of its UNIFORM motion (the other component being acceleration, where it is constantly falling towards Earth), since such motion is relative and, so, Earth's clocks can be viewed as moving instead of the satellite's and therefore be affected by time dilation (leaving only time dilation due to the difference in the gravitational fields explaining the time difference when the two clocks are compared)?
An explanation invoking relativity of simultaneity only explains starting time differences of the clocks (affecting their synchronicity) but not the portion of the overlapping period when each clock is supposedly ticking slower than the other.
Mathematical explanations don't necessarily prove what is actually occurring. The math merely provides relationships between different frames of reference.
Only a precise, common sense, logical explanation will suffice for me otherwise I will maintain the possibility of a fundamental flaw in Relativity Theory.
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Putting it another way, how can both clocks really be ticking slower than the other in two relative frames of uniform motion? Since both reference frames are part of one reality, how can they contradict each other by such an illogical assertion? Shouldn't all perspectives reveal a consistency in the same Universe instead of a stark contradiction as if the observers were in separate Universes? As for evidence, how can the clocks on an orbiting GPS satellite be affected by time dilation due to the component of its UNIFORM motion (the other component being acceleration, where it is constantly falling towards Earth), since such motion is relative and, so, Earth's clocks can be viewed as moving instead of the satellite's and therefore be affected by time dilation (leaving only time dilation due to the difference in the gravitational fields explaining the time difference when the two clocks are compared)?
An explanation invoking relativity of simultaneity only explains starting time differences of the clocks (affecting their synchronicity) but not the portion of the overlapping period when each clock is supposedly ticking slower than the other.
Mathematical explanations don't necessarily prove what is actually occurring. The math merely provides relationships between different frames of reference.
Only a precise, common sense, logical explanation will suffice for me otherwise I will maintain the possibility of a fundamental flaw in Relativity Theory.
Thanks
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