Why Is Einstein / Minkowski Space Bending Not Real?
<p>Time slowing down near massive objects was verified accurately near the Earth: second (time unit) is about nanosecond dilated (longer) near the Earth than away from the Earth. Even in GPS satellites that use atomic clocks for geolocation, such clocks are <a href="https://medium.com/timematters/cheap-marine-buoys-vs-expensive-gps-satellites-2f44441a55a6" rel="noopener"><strong><em>almost half a nanosecond per second faster</em></strong></a> on the orbit than the same atomic clocks on the Earth. (And it is not because GPS satellites move fast: contrary to time slowing down inside fast-moving objects, time in GPS satellites speeds up because they are on high orbit.)</p>
<p>Time dilation causes two interesting optical effects: refraction (change in light beam direction) and redshifting (change in light color — wavelength change). Here we need refraction only: light beam bends when travelling in space where time speed varies, literally by the same Snell’s law that we learned in school:</p>
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