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Jonathan Scott
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What I was talking about when using "potential" was an illustrative example set in the present era to show that the idea of a difference in a rate of time flow can occur and is detectable in standard gravity theory, and can be extended to a slowly changing rate of time, which I think should also be theoretically detectable by light speed delay.PeterDonis said:We are talking about the early universe as compared to now. This situation is not even close to stationary, and there is no frame in which "the sources are approximately at rest" is even close to being true.
And I also think that if a difference in rate of local time flow due to gravity were theoretically detectable, and we call that a change in "potential", then it would be reasonable to extend that conventional terminology back a long way, although I can't say how "early" that would go. It may be imprecise, but the intention seems clear. Of course, I very much doubt that it applies to the actual universe.