Does time fluctuate when there is a large release of energy?

Question

If there is a large release of energy, such as in an atomic blast, does that affect time around it at the moment the energy is released?

I'm asking because it seems to affect the space around it, and space and time are connected, so what would the effects be?

Answer 1

What do you mean by "time around it"... this has no meaning. Imagine you go in a spaceship and you get close to the speed of light, this will affect YOUR time (you and everything on the spaceship which has the same speed). It will not affect the time around you... A stationary observer which sees the spaceship flyby, will not experience any change in its measure of time.

Same goes for the nuclear explosion. Certain particles, if expelled at a sufficient velocity (although I doubt it), might see a minute amount of time contraction, but it will stay limited to THE particle and nothing more.

Answer 2

matter and energy affect space to the same degree given the same amount (you know, e=mc^2). Although the conversion of a small portion of the core mass to energy seems significant in terms of effect, relativistically it doesn't cause any more time dilation in the region than the original amount of mass did (which was anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred pounds).

Answer 3

depends on what you mean by time around it...

take light heading toward a black hole.. "time around" the black hole would seem to slow.. as light does slow down.. and can be stopped.. and then made to move as slow as 38 miles per hours for as long as we want.. without it losing its "light Energy"
see http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/01.24/01-stoplight.html
so if light can be stopped and held as light without losing energy... then time would or could be said to lose or gain speed.. but something as small as an atmoic blast... i doubt it..

Answer 4

No something that small would not affect how clocks run.