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Originally Posted by CodeSlinger
What Minkowski seems to be saying is only that time is a dimension just like the spatial dimensions. No one is disputing this. However, in all the discussions about metric expansion of space-time, it is only expanding along the spatial dimensions, as matt.o already told you here. |
Time slows as one approaches a black hole or any gravitational source ... a clock runs slower on the top of a mountain on earth than it does at sea level.
Also speed compresses time as you near the speed of light.
If space expands ... then time has to expand or c is no longer a constant