Space-time curvature


• The notion of “local” time evoked remains (at least) to be specified. However, one must insist on the fact that it seems to be obtained by this argument a “time” passing rather fastly (?) in the zones of space (?) where there are more interactions, and therefore particularly in the vicinity of a large mass, what is the direction contrary to experimental observations (conformably predicted by general relativity [1]).

This means perhaps simply that the “proto-definition” of “local” time is badly posed, but that imposes a seach for clarifications.

• One may propound that only the relative time scale is perceptible ; when crossing the neighbourhood of a zone where many interactions happen, a system would see the proportion of its own interactions relatively less important, what effectively corresponds to a “fastless” apparent time flow (for a nonelementary system, the elapsed duration would correspond to the sum of the time transferred by interactions with the environment and of the time created by the internal interactions).

One may thus examine the problem of interactions in the vininity of a “black hole” whithin its “horizon” (if that exists).

• Coming back to special relativity, one is led to consider the motion : if a point which is moving is such that as the time increases, its interactions proceed principally with different neighbourhoods in space (?), then how to interpret that the time of a moving point seems to pass slowly ?

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References :

1. see as example :
“Théorie du champ”, L. Landau and E. Lifchitz, ed. Mir ;
“Gravitation and cosmology”, S. Weinberg, ed. Wiley, 1972.



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