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No, I don't accept the idea.JM said:Do you all accept this idea, or do we have some more to talk about?
If you have a clock which is moving in an arbitrary fashion (including, but not limited to, x=vt) you use the following formula to calculate the time displayed on the clock:
[tex]\tau = \int \sqrt{1-v(t)^2/c^2} dt[/tex]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time#In_special_relativity
The integrand is always less than or equal to 1, so you never get [itex]d\tau>dt[/itex] where t is the time coordinate in an inertial frame and v is the clock's velocity in that frame.