Originally Posted by
Sageous
^^ Okay; one last shot, then I promise to give up
Observing gravity bending light is different because, frankly, you're observing gravity bending the light, due to its own natural force, while the changes that occur to an object over time have nothing whatsoever to do with time itself -- other forces are causing the changes; time is just the tool used to measure that change. That is the difference.
As you approach the speed of light, your passage of time does indeed slow down, relative to people not moving at that speed... However, time appears to be passing at the same rate to you. Also, this experience comes not from changing time,but from changing other actual forces resulting in high speed.
One thing you keep mentioning is that time is relative, based on the perspective of the observer. Gravity and the electromagnetic forces are always the same, no matter who is observing, anywhere in the universe. Why is there a difference, if time is an actual force?
And for what it's worth, I don't see how gravity can be influenced, but I'm not a theoretical mathematician, either.
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