Aware this is a subjective and loaded question, but what audiobook would you recommend as your all time favourite in the literary/ speculative/ philosophical genre. Not really into horror/ thrillers. One of my favourites has been the alchemist with Jeremy Irons narrating. Read the books years ago and was wonderful revisiting it as audiobook.
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I’ve read quite a lot about General Relativity from a layman’s perspective, and I keep returning to gravitational time dilation.
Experimentally, the result is obvs clear: clocks deeper in a gravitational well accumulate less time than clocks farther out.
I’ve been thinking about it like this and wondered if this had any merit conceptually?
An atomic clock is just a physical process:
oscillations/ transitions
Could it be accurate conceptually to say: physical processes evolve more slowly in regions where the underlying structure of spacetime is more densely organized?
In other words: regions near mass correspond to greater structural depth/resolution, while regions farther away are more stretched.
So a clock deeper in the well simply exists in a region where each tick corresponds to traversing more underlying structure thus it takes longer.
The observable result remains identical: fewer accumulated ticks relative to clocks farther out.
The mathematics of GR would remain unchanged obviously I am not in anyway disputing that. The shift would be interpretive: geometry and time behavior emerging from deeper structural variation rather than being fundamental themselves.
Apologies if this idea is somewhat ridiculous. Just wanted to hear some experts thoughts on this concept and whether its been explored before/ has any merit.
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