Thank you for the excellent presentation. There will be some very interesting applications for such accurate clocks. The multi messenger result’s including LIGO show that light must be a wave in the medium of space. This medium must have a rest frame and the effects of time dilation will depend on the velocity relative to this space rest frame. So it should be possible to detect a different rate of passage of time at different seasons of the year to to the change in the direction of the velocity of the Earth. The best estimate for the velocity of the Milky Way galaxy is 55 km/s in the direction of the galaxy of Andromeda. We know the orbital velocity of the solar system around the centre of the Milky Way. These are fairly constant. It is the orbital velocity direction of the Earth which varies. The difficulty lies in detecting the change in the rate of passage of time because all clocks will vary in the same way. Maybe the answer is to use a cosmological clock as a reference for example some distant pulsar.
Thank you for the excellent presentation. There will be some very interesting applications for such accurate clocks.
The multi messenger result’s including LIGO show that light must be a wave in the medium of space. This medium must have a rest frame and the effects of time dilation will depend on the velocity relative to this space rest frame.
So it should be possible to detect a different rate of passage of time at different seasons of the year to to the change in the direction of the velocity of the Earth.
The best estimate for the velocity of the Milky Way galaxy is 55 km/s in the direction of the galaxy of Andromeda. We know the orbital velocity of the solar system around the centre of the Milky Way. These are fairly constant. It is the orbital velocity direction of the Earth which varies.
The difficulty lies in detecting the change in the rate of passage of time because all clocks will vary in the same way.
Maybe the answer is to use a cosmological clock as a reference for example some distant pulsar.