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Could there be a similar observation of this if time were slowing slightly?

• jdmichal 12y ago
  I don't see how. Also, what would "time slowing slightly" even mean? That is, what frame of reference is time slowing against? How would we even measure that effect, given that all of our tools which measure time do so my detecting a fixed interval of it passing? Intervals which would also be "slowed".
  • kordless 12y ago
    To be more specific, if our reference time were slowing slightly, where 'our' is defined as all humans and devices making the measurements.
    • wiml 12y ago
      I think our time would have to be slowing different amounts w.r.t. objects at different distances from us. This would imply a Universe-wide effect on the rate of passage of time which is coincidentally centered on Earth, or at least on our group of galaxies. Universal expansion has the advantage that it doesn't require the Earth to happen to be at a special privileged point in the cosmos.