Soumendra Nath Thakur
24-11-2024
Ideally, the bending of light (gravitational lensing) and time dilation (distortion) are not intrinsic properties of light’s trajectory or a clock’s oscillations; rather, they arise from external influences.
Explanation:
In the context of our physical interpretation of time and space, light should travel in a straight line in free space, unaffected by any intrinsic tendency to bend. Any observed bending of light, or gravitational lensing, is therefore not an inherent property of light itself but rather a result of external influences, such as gravitational fields, which act as perturbations on light’s path.
Similarly, time dilation—seen as a change in a clock’s oscillation rate—is not an intrinsic dilation of time. Instead, it results from external influences affecting the clock’s oscillator, which can distort time measurements. Thus, time dilation in this context is best understood as an error in time reading due to external perturbations, rather than an intrinsic characteristic of time.
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