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Welcome to VC.
Allow me to correct you. The dilated effect of mass creates a paradoxical stretching of space centered on the moving object. More accurately, space is stretched towards the object, a puckering effect.
As such, the object can travel the same velocity over less distance than "actual" space. That is the cause for the dilation of time and the length dilation effect of relativistic speeds.
It's a simple effect that you can illustrate with two rubber bands. But it's a current a relevant hypothesis for the cause of time and length dilation.
So to your first... your inability to understand what I wrote is explained above. Any further lacking on your part is not my problem.
To your second, time dilation is a relative phenomenon, and is at trick of perception. What you're forgetting is that frames of reference of perception are also relative.
To your third, that't not news. Einstein himself went back and corrected his own theories about mass dilation, specifically stating that it is observed for the "stationary" observer but non-existent for the moving object.
Basically, there are three dilations with relativistic travel: length, mass, and time. All three are observed by the stationary, and not perceived by the mover.
All three have direct correlation to the distortion of the fabric of space which is caused by the mass dilation effect. |