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Originally Posted by pale blue... forgot
But I wonder if this simple calculation from the "outside" point of view truly represents the proper time a given particle would experience. According to general relativity, time slows down for a particle in a gravity well.
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For the particle itself, time just runs as fast or as quickly (whatever you like) as always, as well in a gravity well as outside of it.
Relativity only tells us that for someone outside of the gravity well looking in, it will appear that the clock for that particle is ticking more slowly than this person's own clock.
So your "time slows down" only happens for outside observers and not for the observed.
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