if you move at very high speed in space in a rocket what presumably makes your watch slow down?

Question

Assume Your watch is a winding kind.How is the Ticking mechanism affected?

Answer 1

Because you are in a rocket you will actively notice the time distortion because your movement is accelerated, if you were at a constant speed not in a rocket you would not notice time moving slowly, although to everyone else you would seem different.

Time itself is slowing, and it relates to all time devices. Break all clocks down and they rely on physics. Atomic clocks rely on atoms degrading over time, they will slow. Mechanical clocks rely on spring tension and winding, the springs will untense at a different rate.

Imagine a ball of light bouncing from one surface to another, up and down up and down. by counitng the bounces gives us a rudimentary time keeping device. Now, push the two planes forward. The ball must follow, relativity states that objects relate the same under motion with regards to experiment. So while the ball of light must still bounce off the planes continuously, it must travel diagnolly to hit the exact same spot it did before. To the ball it sees itself as just bouncing up and down, but to outside observers we see it's diagonal motion. Since it is travelling further to hit the planes, diagonal motion being longer than straight up and down, you will count less bounces over a period than you would if it was at rest. This is the essence of time slowing down at high speed. And time keeping devices do not matter as this effects all aspects of physics that governs all time keeping devices.

Answer 2

You will not see your watch slow down. Your watch will appear to slow down to an observer who is watching you move away at high speed. This is true whether it is a mechanical or electronic watch, so it has nothing to do with ticking mechanisms.

Answer 3

It isn't. A watch estimates time according to either mechanical or digital programming of the units of time. You set it on the presumed time, and it counts the units of programmed time as they turn into the past. Time itself, the 4th dimension, of course is relative to the observer's variables and changes according to those variables.

But if you were to be in a rocket ship, your watch would continue measuring earth time, but the programming of a watch doesn't measure the relativity of time.

Answer 4

Here's an article about relativity that explains why all moving clocks run slower, not just light clocks. It goes on for a few pages, but it's written in plain language.

http://amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/matter.php

Answer 5

so the ticking mechanism isn't what is causing the slowing of time in this scenario its a facet of special relativity that allows for time dilation. you can read the article here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

Answer 6

I don't know but same happends while road tripping, speed is not very relative to the way we see things pass by.

Answer 7

It does not matter what type of watch or clock it is.What causes time to slow is "time dialation"