Thursday, 27 December 2018

general relativity - Gravitational time dilation - Kip Thorne example


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Please find in the images an example from Kip Thorne’s book ‘black holes & time warps’ on Gravitational Time Dilation. I do not understand the last sentences where the doppler effect results in the gravitational time dilation conclusion. I perceive it in this sense more as velocity time dilation?




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