Does time impact the force of gravity, or vis versa?

Question

PHysics and time, the impact it could have on gravity.

Answer 1

Time does not 'impact' the force of gravity, but gravity does slow time. This is part of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

What 'gravity slows time' means is that a clock in a strong gravitational field runs slower than a clock in a weak gravitational field, which in turn runs slower than a clock not in a gravitational field.

Another way of saying this is, that a clock at the bottom of a building runs slower than an identical clock on the roof. This is because the top of a building is further from the center of the Earth than the bottom of the building, so the gravity field at the top is weaker than the gravity field at the bottom.

This was actually shown to be true experimentally by Pound and Rebka in 1959 (the 'Pound-Rebka experiment'). In this experiment, the clocks were lumps of iron-57, which is radioactive and emits photons of a sharply defined frequency. Photons emitted upward from below lost frequency by the time they reached the roof of the building, so an observer on the roof would see the frequency shifted downward, i.e. the 'clock ticks' appeared to be slower than for photons emitted by iron-57 sitting on the roof, which didn't have to 'travel uphill' to reach the observer. The comparison of the photon frequencies was accomplished using the Mossbauer Effect.

Answer 2

Gravity is a curvature of space caused by the presence of mass. In a very low gravitational field, an object might move from 'A' to 'B' in 1 hour's time. If a much higher gravitational field was present, the trip from 'A' to 'B' might take 2 hour's time. Thus, the force of gravity impacts time.

Answer 3

yes gravity does have an impact on time it can slow it down like in black-holes . but not vis versa with time impacting gravity

Answer 4

First question No

Time does not impact gravity, as the force of gravity is an in wave, and time is a perception of the frame rate of motion, and the in wave functions equally with in the independent frame rate of time.

Second question Yes

Gravity force impacts time through altering the outcome of time with in our third dimension with respect to it's fundamental interaction on other energy's.

After reading some of the other responses here I would also like to add this statement

When people speak of time stopping with in a black hole, this statement is factual only for the energy state, but not factual for our perceptions, the statement I believe which was postulated has confused many people as the concept though complex is quite simple if you take it in context.

If you entered a black hole you would be crushed and your life functions would stop, with respect to the energy with in your body time would stop also but since you will no longer be alive to observe, or understand it then it is of no consequence to you.

However time continues to function outside of the quantum singularity, and can only be measured with respect to consciousness.

Do you understand the time which stops with in a quantum singularity is completely irrelevant to us, and only relevant to the functional state of existence of the quantum singularity.

Answer 5

In vicinity of very strong gravitational pull, time appears to have been slowed down. This is because in general theory of relativity, there is time dialation when a clock is set in close proximity to some massive object. The same effect would be there if the clock is in the proximity of a fast moving body, since as the velocity of an object increases, its mass increases

Answer 6

Huge gravity has to become synonymous with time distortion.

In a relativistic dilation problem, the object that gets accelerated is the one that undergoes the time dilation. The un-accelerated object is the one that maintains the reference frame.

Huge gravity = huge acceleration = time dilation.

Answer 7

Yes gravity, along with any other form of acceleration, causes time to slow down.

Answer 8

Hmmm, a Black Hole is a huge gravity well capable of slowing if not stopping time, but the other way round, I don't know......lol

Answer 9

as earth moves through space and time goes bye.. the earth picks up matter. an increase in matter will cause an increase in gravity....

Answer 10

According to Einstein, YES! (reletively speaking)