24 July 2021

Isn’t time dilation not only reduces one's age, it also increases circumference of a clock dial >360° to accommodate enlarged divisions of a minute?

Time dilation, in relativity, is the difference in the elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either due to a relative velocity between them or to a difference in gravitational potential between their locations. The apparent paradox arising from relativity theory that if one of a pair of twins makes a long journey at near the speed of light and then returns, he or she will have aged less than the twin who remains behind.

Therefore, the above paradox conveys that time dilation can reduce one's age, and it also means that the said clock, in a long journey at near the speed of light, have enlarged the divisions of the minute scale within the dial circumference of the clock in journey to accommodate greater than 360 degrees (>360°) of the plane angle of that clock dial.

So the question is, "Is said accommodations of greater than 360 degrees (>360°) of the plane angle of that clock dial valid?"

- Soumendra Nath Thakur

 

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