Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Yeah, relative to someone in a "static" frame of reference. But ten seconds flows at exactly the same rate from your pov regardless of the velocity you're travelling at. The slower clock thing, it's other people who see your clock going slower. Time always flows at the same rate from your pov, a second is always a second.

That's my understanding anyway. Please feel free to tell me I'm wrong, I'll believe you!
I think you should reread the post you quoted. I affirm your notion of perceiving your own time as 1s = 1s. I called it "normal" time. (Assuming your perception is tied to physical particles doing physics stuff... and things.)

"Static" is relative. As long as 2 objects aren't accelerating, then they are static in some inertial reference frame.


The thing is that sometimes you both see each other's clock ticking slower, and sometimes not. In the case of gravitational time dilation, a person on the space station sees clocks on the surface of the Earth ticking slower, and clocks on the surface of the Earth see the clocks in orbit ticking faster.

The twin paradox is real. If two identical twins travel on different space-time paths, then they will age at different rates. So much so that it "could" be possible that one twin ages much more rapidly than the other twin, and when they are brought back together after their separation, one of them could be years older... or his body will have aged much more... than the other.

For the record, it's not a paradox at all. The only thing is that we are so used to traveling on nearly identical space-time paths with everything around us that we fail to notice that the rules in the universe act differently on different scales.

If you zoom in on a curve close enough, it will look like a flat plane - unless it's a fractal. You go fractals!
(Actually, an infinite, flat plane is a fractal. Even more win for fractals!)

I'm saying that life on the surface of Earth sees only the barest of minutiae when it comes to differences in gravitational field or differences in velocity. It's easy to falsely assume that the flow of time is constant under these conditions.