Recent content by tachi158

I understand it's a curvature of spacetime, but it is specifically the curvature of time component that has the largest effect on slow moving objects (weak field). I mean, this is not an unknown concept. Sean Carroll, whom you have cited, uses it...

Got it. I did question myself in the first post, whether the maximal proper time rule even applied to my question, hence me asking this question in the first place. I don't think you're grasping the context of that straight line. He isn't referencing a geodesic. He's referencing a line, on a...

Regarding the misstatement, that's not what it says, he says an objects trajectory in just the temporal portion is nearly a straight line. Referencing Figure 2 (which you obviously can't see), he says if it was drawn to actual scale, and written in meters rather than seconds, it would extend...

Thank you every one. I have a lot more to read. I was away in Las Vegas (so no response for a few days) but was doing some digging this morning. And I found reference (from a Youtube video lol) to an article by Roy R Gould in the American Journal of Physics (May 2016, "Why does a ball fall?: A...

Yes I've seen your video and it took me a while to get it, but I understand it more now. Watched it maybe a dozen times and learn something new each time. I get that gravity is along the gradient of gravitational time dilation. What I'm trying to understand is, what is behind the apparent...

Warning: Long post, apologies beforehand. So science/physics isn't my field of study or work, but am always fascinated by it (looking back, perhaps I should have went down that route). In any event, a few months ago I went to finally learn more about relativity after reading a discussion of...

Hello everyone! I'm just someone who is ridiculously curious about science, mechanics etc. Weird enough, was always interested in astronomy, science, astrophysics etc., math/chemistry was by far my best and easiest subject. So of course I pursue a law degree🤦‍♂️ Huge fan of the Expanse, and...