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"Gravitational time dilation and special relativistic time dilation are rather different phenomena." Are they? Isn't it a rather amazing coincidence that the very "laws" that describe the former are so easily rewritten as the latter? Similarly amazing is the fact that time dilation due to...

So you're telling me I'm too ignorant to understand? That's odd; Albert Einstein wrote a book to explain both SR and GR based upon his belief that his theories are comprehensible to the average person. They are, to me. Richard Feynman also wrote a book about Quantum Mechanics aimed at us...

"Yes. But that's all there is to it." Really? What in GR or SR says so? Don't mean to be difficult, but it seems to me that GR and SR should be consistent. All points of view should result in the same conclusion, right? For example neither refutes Newtonian mechanics; both simply expand it...

I have no college degree or any advanced formal training in physics, so this may be really, really obvious. Please be kind. In GR, the amount by which time slows down on the surface of Earth compared to "empty" space is: SQRT(1-2GM/(RC^2)). For the surface of Earth that's 6.96 E-10 seconds...