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3 clocks thought experiment - Absolute vs. relative aspects?
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[QUOTE="Friggle, post: 6899821, member: 736516"] The reason why I prefer to think about the path through spacetime in the frame of reference of the observer is that this allows me to think of time and ageing being an effect caused by an object moving through some background space. Even if it is not a space in an absolute sense but rather some kind of "private" spacetime area of the observer. I find this easier to accept than the idea of time dilation being an effect of two objects moving relative to each other, expressed by a relative velocity vector. I kind of think "how does the observed object know in which way it has to age and experience time dilation in relation to an observer?" But it may be that I just can't really get the 4-dimensional idea of spacetime in my head, it still stays abstract to me. I'll give it a few more tries, however, it seems that it may be worth struggling with it ;-) [/QUOTE]
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