jjw wrote:
"I leave Earth where my Earth clock has an hour composed of 60 minutes. I am now on a space craft going very fast so my on board clock has 80 minutes in an hour. Your GR, I am told, will have me aging 3/4 as fast as my spot on Earth."
No NO and NO! That's my point ... you are mis-stating the theory. Your clock does not have 80 minutes in an hour. You continue to age at the exact same rate as always.
Let me see if I can point you down a path that will allow you to see relativity as it actually is.
When I measure distance what am I measuring?
The distance between two points.
I can put a stake in the ground at point A
I can put a stake in the ground at point B
I can run a string between them and declare the distance to be equal to the length of the string.
When I measure time what am I measuring?
What does it mean when we say that a clock measures time?
What does it mean when we say that one clock is more accurate than another?
I want you to give this some serious thought and then I will take you the next step.
