The effect of Time Dilation upon Radiation
What happens to radiation when it moves thru different dilation areas?
by Joseph_Sixpack
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Abstract: A question arose in joe's mind about radiation:
What happens to radiation if it is generated or exists in a
high time dilated area and then travels to a zero or weak
time dilation area?
What's behind the curtain?
A possible answer could be that the frequency of the
radiation increases under those conditions.
Would power increase along with it?
No... probably power would remain the same, umm... the
amplitude of the radiation would have to decrease (go down)
to keep the energy level of the initial radiation the same.
unnn... conservation of something or other from physics.
Okay, at least that is joe's best guess.
But... Is it a correct one?
So, let's push on Joe's intuitive efforts in physics and see
what kind of trouble he can get into.
Consider radiation issued forth from the zero gravity port
of a binary black hole system:
Under those heavy surrounding gravitational conditions you
would think that the ejection of radiation would be under a
lot of gravitational (spacetime) time dilation.
But... the radiation is issued out or escapes under TIME
dilation conditions and so would be under dilation effects.
But... the conundrum is that the radiation escapes thru a
ZERO gravitational port inside the black hole or high
gravitational conditions object and so, my most likely
guess, would NOT fall under a dilation environment, so the
radiation wouldn't be dilated at all. But... once out and
traveling it...
having a feeble mind doesn't help with this Einstein stuff
at all... sigh... It doesn't take much to get a joe
confused when wading thru dirt and superdirt interactions.
Okay... let's try this again...
Now what would happen if some 'splash back radiation
happened to be ejected and escape during or under some sort
of collision circumstance where time was heavily dilated?
Under the severe time dilation conditions, my guess is that
the radiation, if it could escape at all would, say for
discussion's sake, start out a gigahertz for its lambda
frequency with some 'normal' energy amplitude and then, as
the radiation traveled towards lesser time dilated areas of
space, its frequency would increase accordingly as the
gravitation eased up on the dilation and tick-tocks got
closer and closer together.
So, it wouldn't be too far a reach to guess that VERY, VERY,
high frequencies could be reached using this reverse time
dilation or 'undilation', if you please.
Restated: If, under its initializing conditions, radiation
started out as an original emission at a rather high
frequency under severe time dilation conditions, the
dilation multiplier as it arrived in almost zero dilation
areas would increase the frequency and lower the amplitude
of the radiation.
This may be a possible and augmenting source for the very
high gamma ray bursts that appear to come from the dark
areas of our cosmos.
The duration of the burst, its frequency, and its amplitude
would all be affected as the radiation traveled from a
highly dilated area to a lesser one.
I suppose you could argue the reverse process would be true
as well as radiation traveled from an undilated area to a
highly dilated area with the radiation being stretched and
lowering in frequency as it approached the dilated area.
In fact, all existing radiation would be affected as it
moved from dilation to 'undilation' conditions and visa-
versa.
One of the interesting side issues of this apparent albeit
theoretical process is what happens to the value of c under
severe spacetime warpage? hmmmm... but that is another
chapter... particularly, the e = +/- mc2 part...
Some things are just going to have to be left for the
experts to finger out. speculation is speculation. And it
is particularly bad at the joe sixpack level. But at least
the question has been raised. Whether the question is a
valid one of course is yet another issue. But it is worth
kicking the idea around to see what happens and whether it
will lead to any predictive ability or reveal any further
realizations about the nature of the cosmos.
Thus endeth joe's speculations on the nature of superdirt
and a/the possible source for the generation of the ever
mysterious ultra high energy gamma ray bursts.
ah... here they come now with my pills...
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