Is the time dilation effect caused by light speed due to the warping of the force of gravity?

Question

It occus to me that gravity is responsible for the warping of space-time, (as with black holes, and other large bodies) and that perhaps this occurs with light speed also. Maybe there is an elusive field of gravity contained within light that is responsible for time dilation distortions...

Answer 1

Time dilation is a consequence of comparing successive measurements on one clock with readings on two different clocks. The single clock will measure the smaller amount of elapsed time.

Answer 2

I agree that the effect is same for both the mentioned things but the two things are not related to each other as you told here.

Time dilation occurs only due to speed irrespective of the source that is resonsible to accelerate the body.

Whereas gravity on the other hand, anybody coming in trap of gravity accelerates. And in some special places like Black Holes where there is intense and large magnitude of gravitational field, the accelerating bodies finally acquire a relative speed and time-dilation occurs.

So only SPEED matters not the source of acceleration.

Hope this helps...

Answer 3

As a body approaches the speed of light

it's mass increases. This causes all internal

clocks to slow down: things are moving more

slowly inside the body. For example, you

would age more slowly.

A similar process would occur if you moved from

Earth to Jupiter since Jupiter has more gravity

than Earth.

If all mass is electromagnetic in nature, internal

light clocks, would slow as the mass approached

the speed of light, maybe?

Answer 4

Light speed is a reference point as a relation for matter velocity on the one hand and energetic or subatomic velocity on the other. Time dilation is an assumed co-effective with velocity difference. No velocity need be specified for the assumption for that difference for the other difference, i.e. if a thing moves at a different speed, its time dilation for an other thing moving at a different speed. The reason being their  energy conditions are different measured in 1) foot/pound/seconds or 2) whatever you like.

Yes, gravity distorts the continuity for time dilation ratio as gravity is different at every point in space and thus different for everything in it..

Answer 5

I'm sorry I didn't quite get your point. However if you are asking me that if time dilation is caused by gravitational force, then that wouldn't be totally correct.

Time dilation is caused when an object moves with a relativistic speed, that is a speed near to the speed of light(c). If you can imagine yourself on a train traveling at 240,000 Km/s it can be shown that you will observe a time dilation of 4 seconds. However near the black hole light tends to bend, as stated by the General Theory(actually this is tougher to understand than the special theory). Though my knowledge is not that well regarding this, I can tell you that if you consider this entire space-time continuum to be like a stretched rubber latex, you would see that when any planet is placed on the space, the planet by it's gravitational force bend the space, just like when a heavy object is placed on the latex, it would bend it down by it's weight. Black holes are immensely powerful gravitational objects, with so powerful a gravity that it can tear a hole in the space. Near these black holes the space and subsequently the light is stretched into a infinitely long conical structure called a singularity. Here the speed of light apparently changes resulting in a time distortion of the black hole's reference frame and the reference frame of the rest of the universe. As a result a time dilation is observed. However if a person gets sucked into a black hole he would then observe no time dilation inside the black hole, but would observe it in the universe. This is however my theory and unfortunately if anyone does get sucked into a black hole he may not live to tell the tale. Gravity however doesn't cause time dilation, else there would always be a time dilation occurring around every human being.

As for your last theory about light containing an elusive field of gravity, the truth is that it may be true. As an afterthought, if this were to true, then a powerful enough light beam would be able to rip the universe and create a wormhole. Think about it.