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GENERAL RELATIVITY Time Dilation & Light Bending

GENERAL RELATIVITY Time Dilation & Light Bending. Time Dilation Light Bending Black Holes. Acceleration causes time dilation: consider increments of travelling twin’s journey Elapsed time t , distance travelled l, measured in inertial (rest) frame of stay-at-home twin

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GENERAL RELATIVITY Time Dilation & Light Bending

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  1. GENERAL RELATIVITY Time Dilation & Light Bending • Time Dilation • Light Bending • Black Holes

  2. Acceleration causes time dilation: consider increments of travelling twin’s journey • Elapsed time t, distance travelled l, measured in inertial (rest) frame of stay-at-home twin • Proper time τelapsed on travelling twin’s clock valid for SR (IRF) τis less than t (time dilation) τ² = t² - l ²

  3. Equivalence principle implies gravity dilates time Gravity Ticks faster Ticks slower weaker stronger E.g. One mile high = 15 billionths sec / day faster Important for GPS Hafele & Keating 1971 Atomic clocks on airline

  4. Light Equivalence principle implies bending of light by gravity Gravitational Lensing First seen by Eddington’s 1919 eclipse expedition

  5. Black Holes Sufficiently strong gravity could create an Event Horizon • Time stands still at EH relative to far away clocks • Nothing can escape once past the EH • Stellar collapse, galaxy centers, may produce Black Holes Milky Way Cygnus X-1 Center in orbiting a X-rays black hole

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