Story Of The Falling Apple
The historical story about Sir Isaac Newton's eureka moment is that he was under an apple tree when an apple landed on his head. That started him thinking about what made the apple stay on the tree and then let it fall?
The modern version of the story is, did the apple fall due to space-time warping? Newton's version is cute and easily imagined, but Einstein's version sucks. Imagine if we look at things logically and solve questions that scientists can't?
Let me explain why space doesn't warp, even if Einstein said so.
The Fabric of Spacetime Doesn't Exist
A popular way to explain Einstein's idea is to use a bowling ball and sheet. I know that the bowling ball example on a rubber sheet is easy to imagine, but if gravity isn't a force, then what's holding the sheet?
And, what's holding the earth in place around a curved fabric of space as it orbits the sun? Gravity! Einstein had no idea how to explain gravity, so he said gravity isn't a force.
He used the idea that time curves the space around large objects and that curved space is telling objects where to move. The story that Einstein made up is distorted.
He found out how to use math to explain how particles move as they get close to a force of gravity. That was brilliant, but to say that space is curved is a total fasehood.
Spacetime is a metric used to measure an object moving in space. It could also be a ball falling in your living room. The motion of an object is measured by its location in space and, after one second, its new location.
The measurement of its motion is calculated into m/sec. The number that Newton calculated was 9.8 m/sec/sec, and it is the force of gravity on earth attracting a ball or an apple.
Gravity is explained 99.99% of the time with Newton’s law. Gravity is the force that attracts a mass to another mass, and we measure it by a clock's time.
A Clock is a Measuring Tool
A clock displays time, and it's a tool to measure any motion that moves in space (distance). Things don’t move because of time or the curvature of space.
Things move because of a force or the force of gravity. I am not counting explosions, bullets, cars, or other vehicles. Time doesn't cause space to distort so that objects can move in that distortion.
I think Einstein’s greatest blunder was believing that time has physical properties. Time doesn’t flow or move or do anything so then nothing can move in time. Things move in space.
Time is the measurement of motion in space (distance/time). Einstein and Minkowski came up with the math that space has a geometry and that objects, including light, follow a curved Spacetime. This was a mistake.
I realize that spacetime is just a metric and that space isn't curved. But the media and most people think that Einstein's spacetime is a real fabric and that mistake is difficult to correct.
Einstein's equations merely describe how objects move in space during relativistic events. But, we could solve relativistic events using Newton's laws if we add a vector of time dilation to the motion of an event.
Clocks are physical things, and they are subject to the force of gravity. Thus, they will display the wrong amount of time due to time dilation.
The effects of gravity during relativistic events are simply explained by the fact that clocks are physical things affected by gravity and acceleration.
When a ball or an apple falls closer to earth, they experience more gravity. If there were a clock on a moving object, it would experience time dilation as it is attracted closer and closer to the earth.
Time Dilation In Gravity
During ordinary motion like a falling apple, the effect of time dilation is minuscule. But during relativistic motion, the difference in gravity and the time dilation must be calculated and adjusted.
I don't know Einstein's GR equations. Einstein used his math to show the correct result even though his idea of gravity is incorrect.
If a clock experiences less gravity, it will tick faster and show that more time has elapsed. But consider the truth that a clock does not measure time.
Clocks tick at a constant rate of 86,400 seconds per day unless the force of gravity changes. A clock displays its ticking at the rate that its environment allows.
We use a clock to measure motion but the clock displays seconds based on the force of gravity. The time of one second is only accurate on earth, where the force of gravity is 9.8 m/sec/sec.
Earth's Time Dilation
Earth-time has time dilation built into the measure of our one second. The GPS satellites clocks prove it.
The satellites have almost no force of gravity, so their clocks tick 45 microseconds faster per day than an identical clock on earth. The force of acceleration on the orbiting satellite slows down the clock's time by 7 microseconds per day. The total time dilation on a GPS satellite is 38 microseconds faster than earth time per day.
But if you look at it the other way around, Earth time is slower by 38 microseconds than in the satellite because of the force of earth's gravity.
If you can find out how to add the time dilation into Isaac Newton’s law of gravity, you should get the same answer as Einstein’s convoluted idea.
Einstein's equations give the proper values during relativistic events, but his reasons are wrong. However, we don't have any relativistic events on earth, so we can just use Newton's laws of gravity.
The takeaway from the falling apple is that gravity controls the rate of a clock's ticking. Time is relative to the force of gravity, and time has no physical properties.
Time doesn't change your age or the rate of motion. You get older with the physical and emotional stress of living.
Time is the measurement of motion and the measurement of your age. But time doesn't cause gravity or motion.
You might like to read the book I just published on Amazon entitled Einstein: Distorted By Gravity, A New Theory of Gravity.
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