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- Defining time dilation zones in order to find the slowest moving region in the universe
Firstly, I am a Mechanical engineer working in the aerospace industry and I know very little compared to the collective community here and my formal education had to do with practical and basic stuff, so apologies if I’m overlooking a basic principle or something.
my idea: what if we launched a bunch of probes at specific velocities into space and record the amount of time it take each probe to travel a certain distance, then finding how much time dilation that probe experienced... using the data from a bunch of these probes going in various directions, create a 3 dimensional data field, then define some layer lines based on how much time dilation each probe experienced compared to that of Earth assuming Earth is zero/control. I suspect if you sent enough probes far enough out (I don’t know how far out, a few km? thousands of light years?) I’d suspect you’d be able to layer the time dilation data as a series of spheres where time dilation increases as the probes travel with greater velocity towards the outer layers. If I’m right, then the center of the sphere would have zero time dilation and we could in theory launch a probe at the exact velocity dictated by that data at the exact angle to negate the inertia the probe had while on earth, and that probe could be said to have absolute zero velocity...?
now I’m really stretching my luck with this statement, but if we found an absolute zero speed, then we could just used data we have of the inertia of other galaxies and track it all back with probably a lot of error back to some converging area, the center of the universe.
This might be physics vomit but I’m very curious.
my idea: what if we launched a bunch of probes at specific velocities into space and record the amount of time it take each probe to travel a certain distance, then finding how much time dilation that probe experienced... using the data from a bunch of these probes going in various directions, create a 3 dimensional data field, then define some layer lines based on how much time dilation each probe experienced compared to that of Earth assuming Earth is zero/control. I suspect if you sent enough probes far enough out (I don’t know how far out, a few km? thousands of light years?) I’d suspect you’d be able to layer the time dilation data as a series of spheres where time dilation increases as the probes travel with greater velocity towards the outer layers. If I’m right, then the center of the sphere would have zero time dilation and we could in theory launch a probe at the exact velocity dictated by that data at the exact angle to negate the inertia the probe had while on earth, and that probe could be said to have absolute zero velocity...?
now I’m really stretching my luck with this statement, but if we found an absolute zero speed, then we could just used data we have of the inertia of other galaxies and track it all back with probably a lot of error back to some converging area, the center of the universe.
This might be physics vomit but I’m very curious.