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Time dilation in a gravitational field

For a clock at fixed tex2html_wrap_inline1293 ie tex2html_wrap_inline1295 we have

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The proper time is tex2html_wrap_inline1297 , so

equation1043

so clocks run slow in a gravitational field.

Peter Dunsby
Sun Oct 6 15:12:56 GMT+0200 1996