Re: space: gravity's effect on time and expansion?


"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" <dlzc1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Dear Ben Shoemate:
|
| "Ben Shoemate" <ben.shoemate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > Last night, as I was watching the new series "The
| > Universe", I was reminded of a particularly
| > interesting facet of Einstein's relativity theory - the
| > effect of gravity on time (www.mth.uct.ac.za/omei/gr/
| > chap5/node8.html) Bottom line of that theory is
| > that time passes slower when you are inside a
| > gravitational field.
|
| ... as compared to outside the field ...
|
| > If time is passes faster the further away from a
| > gravitation field you get, wouldn't that explain
| > why the universe is expanding faster?
|
| No. Inflation, and expansion happened even when the Universe was
| "gravitationally bound".
|
| > Eventually, as galaxies get further apart, there
| > is less and less gravity in inner-galactic space,
| > thus (I would assume) time is going faster
| > between galaxies
|
| I don't think

Of course you don't. No need to advertise it.




| it is a big contributor. I may be wrong.
|
| > and the "normal" expansion process would be
| > occurring at an accelerated pace. In other
| > words, are voids growing faster than matter
| > rich areas of the universe because everything
| > happens faster there? Including expansion?
|
| No. A garment tears where the fabric is weakest. The fabric is
| weakest in this case, where "gravitational binding" is weakest.
|
| > Not only that, but the expansion itself is
| > causing gravity to be less and less on an
| > influence because the galaxies are now
| > further away (more space-time between
| > them).
|
| I think

You may be wrong. You've never shown any evidence of thinking yet.


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