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Time dilation

Time dilation is the difference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either because of a relative velocity, a consequence of special relativity, or a difference in gravitational potential between their locations due to gravitational time dilation. When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity. The dilation compares…

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Time dilation caused by a relative velocity

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Time dilation caused by gravity or acceleration

Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilation

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Time dilation

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Time dilation

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related to Further reading · 73
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related to Experimental testing · 23
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related to Popular misconception · 13
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related to In fiction · 12
Time dilation → Apes, Brian May, Earth, In Interstellar, Interstellar, Physicist Kip Thorne, Planet, Some, The Queen, The Science, They, Velocity
related to Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilation · 11
Time dilation → Barycentric Coordinate Time, Earth, Earth-orbit, Einstein, High-accuracy, In, International Atomic Time, Practical, Relativistic, Schwarzschild, Solar System
related to External links · 10
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related to Time dilation caused by a relative velocity · 9
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related to history · 8
Time dilation → Albert Einstein, Emil Cohn, Hermann Minkowski, In, Joseph Larmor, Lorentz, Subsequently, Time
related to Invisibility · 7
Time dilation → As, Doppler, Observations, This, Thus, Time, Visually
related to Simple inference · 6
Time dilation → Delta, In, It, The, This, Time

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Time dilationis adifference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks0.90text
Time dilationis auniversal feature of special relativity0.90text
GPSinstance offor instance in the operation of satellite navigation systems0.80text
Galileoinstance offor instance in the operation of satellite navigation systems0.80text
Time dilationrelated to Clock hypothesisThe0.60section
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Time dilationrelated to Clock hypothesisEinstein's0.60section
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Time dilationrelated to Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilationHigh-accuracy0.60section
Time dilationrelated to Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilationEarth-orbit0.60section
Time dilationrelated to Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilationPractical0.60section
Time dilationrelated to Combined effect of velocity and gravitational time dilationInternational Atomic Time0.60section

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