Bjarne
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LIAR: The post where you gave your example starts with gravitational time dilation.
Your calculation is even dumber now - you have to show that the different gravitational fields of the planets at the surface (where the clocks are) is negligible in comparison with the solar gravitational field.
I suspect that it is the solar gravitational field that is negligible. After all we are not pulled off the surface of the Earth by it.
In actual fact it is your obsession with Mercury and the Earth thst is the dumb part. You should have expressed the problem more generally:
Take an star that is in an orbit in a galaxy.Scientists have no problem with this because there are many examples of different measurements from different observers in relativity.
Let there be a observer Alice with a clock orbiting that star at a distance r1.
Let there be a observer Bob with a clock orbiting that star at a different distance r2.
Alice and Bob measure the time taken for one orbit of the star in the galaxy. Thsi is the orbital period.
According to GR the clocks tick at different rates (gravitational time dilation). Alice will measure a different orbital period from Bob.
Kepler's third law is: "The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit."
Thus Alice will calculate a different semi-major axis of the star's orbit from what Bob will calculate.
NO RC I am not a LIAR
Have you mother not learn you not to talk so slighting about other people, when the trueth is that you misunderstood, and you just did it again.
You don't understand the point and you did also not understand the math I have shown you.
We are and have all the time discussed the gravitational influence of the Sun
Go back to the image, - can you see that it is mentioned “The surface of the Sun”
Now we moves further away, - 1 line down in the table.
Can you read it is written “the ORBIT of Mercury".
So the calculation shows the time dilation due to the gravity of the Sun.
It is pretty large, and as I wrote; 6 years “lost” of time for a clock on Mercury – (still you can and shall ignore the mass of Mercury.)
But well I can admit there was some confusion, because I also mention the planets Earth and Mercury (without telling you to ignore that mass)
We can easy simplify the scenario even more, to avoid confusion.
Because we could say that the 2 clocks are following the Sun’s orbit around the Milkyway.
(Technical we could say the orbiting clocks have devices (small rockets) on board to counteract the gravity from the Sun.
Seen from our perspective both the Sun and the two clocks (all 3 objects) are therefore orbiting the Milkyway in the excact same radius to the center of the Milkyway) .
The one clock is 50 billion km. behind the Sun, and the other 150 billion km behind.
This scenareo should eliminate he last confusion according to the Special relativity as well as local gravity influence, since all relative speed now are the same.
I mean still the math should be simple.
We know the 2 relative time rates and I believe we also know the speed, - the logical result (so far I can understand it) hence should be that B impossible can travels the same distance, simple because speed multiplied with time = distance.
I think we have a serious mathematical problem here and wonder how such a simple obviously unsolved mystery possible can have existed the last 100 years without any explanation. ?
I mean how difficult can that really be ?
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