Re: Non-constant time rate

: Ivan Voras <ivoras@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Supposing you live in Magic Land (tm) and with the technology of early
: 20th century, and you encounter a zone where time doesn't "flow"
: regularly - call it a temporal anomaly or something like that.  Could
: you detect it? 
: - a Newtonian universe (relativistic effects don't exist; speed, energy
: can increase indefinitely)

Speed and energy increase indefinitely in special relativity also.
True, speed appraches c as a limit, but it keeps increasing.
Kinetic energy, momentum, etc, of course, just keeps increasing.

: - you cannot compare objects (clocks, etc.) from within and without
: the zone because of handwaving reasons.  You have to work within the
: zone. 

Either you can send light in and/or out, in which case you can
detect a blue or red shift, or you can't, in which case you can
detect that no light goes through the boundary.  Most simply, if
you enter a region of slowed timeflow, the whole universe blueshifts
wrt your perspective.  If you can't see it, you'd have to see some
effect blocking outside influences.



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