The Relationship Between Gravity and Time
Most of the science on the internet makes the mistake of thinking that time exists without clocks. They misunderstand that gravity affects physical clocks first and then time. Gravity doesn't affect time because time isn't a physical thing; it's a number.
Einstein's gravity sucks and distorts time??
Strangely, we don't know what causes gravity, but we can measure it. It's a mystery that we can measure time, but we don't know where time comes from.
My quest is to find and share the answers that science doesn't. I have answered the following frequently asked questions about time and gravity.
Do Gravity and Time work independently or together?
Are you thinking of gravitational time dilation?
Time doesn’t do work or make things happen. Time measures speed, while gravity does all the work.
When a clock is in a stronger field of gravity, the atoms in the clock feel the pressure of more mass.
The force of gravity slows down the frequency of atoms, a clock slows down, and the time on a clock has time dilation.
The force is from gravity, and the effect is on the time a clock shows when compared to a reference clock.
If a clock is in a weaker force of gravity, the atoms move faster, and a clock speeds up to show time moves faster.
But the force of gravity is on a clock, and the effect is that time seems to change.
What is time, and why is it relative to the force of gravity?
Time is an abstract thing that doesn’t exist because the only moment that exists is the present moment.
But time comes from a clock, and clocks are physical things affected by gravity. If clocks didn’t exist, would time exist?
Time is what a clock shows. Thus, time doesn’t exist without clocks. Th
e universe is full of motion that seems to move from a Big Bang event into the space of the universe.
The motion from the Big Bang is described as an inflationary event of motion. The speed of the motion was at light speed.
Eventually, the motion slowed down when matter created gravity.
When much of the matter moved into dark holes, the force of gravity started to accelerate the matter again.
A body in motion will continue to move in the same direction and at the same speed unless acted upon by an outside force.
Consider a clock in motion. The clock is ticking in space where no gravity exists. It moves to a planet, and the force of gravity causes the clock to slow down, and the display of time slows down.
Time moves slower. Then that planet enters a black hole, and the clock stops working.
Time has stopped on the clock, but gravity and motion continue. Gravity and time aren't related, but a clock is relative to gravity.
If Gravity and Speed affect Time, is there any relation between Speed and Gravity?
Gravity affects clocks, and time is what a clock shows. A clock slows down in a stronger gravity field and shows less time.
We use a clock to measure any motion compared to the motion of Earth. Speed is a measurement of how fast things move or the motion of things.
So, a clock measures motion and calls it time. When an object moves faster, a force of acceleration is a force of gravity, and a clock slows down.
If motion or the speed of an object is constant (like the speed of Earth), then there’s no force and no change to a clock.
So, a constant speed doesn’t affect time, but any force of gravity affects clocks and thus the time on a clock. Does that answer your question?
Where Does Gravity Come From?
What is the force that causes space to curve? What force moves matter in space?
The only force present is gravity. Spacetime is a geometric description of motion near gravity.
Where does gravity come from when mass is present, obviously from matter.
When you examine the speed of quarks and gluons in the nucleus of atoms, you find the force of attraction known as gravity.
This quantum chromodynamic force (QCD) doesn't rely on space or time (Spacetime). Gravity comes from the motion of quarks in the matter.
Spacetime isn't real, it's a mathematical description of motion, and time is a measurement.
Therefore, a description of motion in space vs. measurement of motion in space (time) doesn't become Spacetime.
It's speed per second, the force of attraction, or gravity. Something is convoluted in Einstein's math and the description of gravity or both.
How does gravitational time dilation change matter's frequency, motion, and time?
Good question. Gravitational time dilation has no effect on anything except on the clock’s display of time.
Time is relative to the force of gravity, and time doesn’t make you grow older. Time is the measurement of how long you have lived, but you get older because of life's physical and emotional stress.
The twin paradox and other media stories love to say that time has the physical power to make you younger if a clock slows down.
Time is the number of years you have lived based on earth's rotation, not on time dilation.
The GPS satellites' clocks tick 45 microseconds faster in space per day, but that time dilation doesn’t make the satellites move faster or age faster.
However, gravity has the power to change all physical things.
Time dilation is one of the things gravity changes, but the power of gravity on a large planet would prevent a person from running.
The power of gravity can cause your death near a black hole, and accelerating towards the speed of light will stop your heart from beating.
The power of gravity controls our life. Time is only a measurement of motion, and your age is measured by how many trips you took around the Sun.
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