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Aug 10 2019 07:29pm
Quote (Thor123422 @ Aug 10 2019 12:50am)
More gravity = slower time

Your feet are closer to earth and therefore time moves slower for them.

However in your whole life the mismatch is going to be less than one second because its such a tiny difference.


Vouch

Basically time and space travel are competing functions. The faster we travel through space, the slower we travel through time.

The full quantum perspective disregards time as a dimension but this is a good way to understand for noobs.
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Aug 10 2019 07:45pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Aug 10 2019 08:29pm)
The full quantum perspective disregards time as a dimension


This is incorrect. The most basic quantum mechanical perspective disregards time as a dimension, but there's plenty of ways to incorporate time into quantum mechanics.
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This is incorrect. The most basic quantum mechanical perspective disregards time as a dimension, but there's plenty of ways to incorporate time into quantum mechanics.


Most perspectives in quantum mechanics regard time as a pattern as a result of laws being consistent across different spatial dimensions.
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Aug 10 2019 08:51pm

My intuition is that time is an independent (and arbitrary) quantity used to measure the change of a system

Gravity is an attractive forces between any two bodies which directly depends on the mass of the bodies and the distance between them which to put in plain terms means the closer they are the greater the attractive force which for us is experienced as friction

With that intuition we can conclude that your feet will experience a slightly higher gravitational force than your head however that value will be incredibly small relative to the size of the earth

Now since the cells in your feet experience a greater force exerted against them they will break down that much faster compared to the ones in your head assuming they are chemically identical




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My intuition is that time is an independent (and arbitrary) quantity used to measure the change of a system

Gravity is an attractive forces between any two bodies which directly depends on the mass of the bodies and the distance between them which to put in plain terms means the closer they are the greater the attractive force which for us is experienced as friction

With that intuition we can conclude that your feet will experience a slightly higher gravitational force than your head however that value will be incredibly small relative to the size of the earth

Now since the cells in your feet experience a greater force exerted against them they will break down that much faster compared to the ones in your head assuming they are chemically identical


Thats not the sense of aging being used. If you take a clock and put it in orbit it will run faster than an identical clock on earths surface. This has been experimentally validated and is important for keeping gps calibrated.

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Most perspectives in quantum mechanics regard time as a pattern as a result of laws being consistent across different spatial dimensions.


Which says nothing about taking time as a dimension. Time is just a standardized way to compare the rates things change at, but it can be regarded as its own dimension over which things change, and this can be incorporated into the equations that govern QM.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Aug 10 2019 09:31pm
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nvm

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Aug 13 2019 05:01pm
Time doesn't exist as a thing
It's a unit of measurement people made up
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Time doesn't exist as a thing
It's a unit of measurement people made up


All units are made up
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Quote (Thor123422 @ Aug 13 2019 06:09pm)
All units are made up


Yep
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Quote (ggurg0d @ Aug 13 2019 06:10pm)
Yep


Yet still useful and capable of describing reality
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