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You can refer to it differently, but time progresses at different rates at the different places. So in your example, physical processes (i.e rusting, aging) at
by danans 5y ago
You can refer to it differently, but time progresses at different rates at the different places. So in your example, physical processes (i.e rusting, aging) at place B happen 2X as fast as those at place A.
- charcircuit 5y ago>but time progresses at different rates at the different places. What's the problem? We can still have a now defined as I mentioned above. t1=t2=0 at the start. Now when t1=x for place A will refer to when t2=2*t1 at place B.
- random314 5y agoAs per Einstein's theory of relativity, there is no universal now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity Also, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime "the distances and even temporal ordering of pairs of events change when measured in different inertial frames of reference (this is the relativity of simultaneity); and the linear additivity of velocities no longer holds true."
- charcircuit 5y ago>the distances and even temporal ordering of pairs of events change when measured in different inertial frames of reference (this is the relativity of simultaneity) I'm not saying to use different frames of reference. I am saying to use a single universal frame of reference.
- random314 5y agoThere is a frame of reference where the merger hasn't happened yet. Let's use that as a universal frame of reference.