G'day,
I am here to chronical an idea I had for a theoretical instrument to measure what would basically be the effect of gravity on perceived time. This device could be theoretically used to measure to see if the dilation of time from the effect of gravity is noticeable in electronics as well as giving a way to measure the dilation.
The basic idea of the instrument is a long space-proofed cable containing a Optical Cable, Two wires for Data Signals, and Two wires for Power. This cable will be covered in layers of various materials to protect against cosmic background radiation as well as the environments of planets it is used to measure the Gravitation Time Dilation of. At either end of this instrument will be a small electronic enclosure that will serve to take in an incoming signal from each line, record how long it's been since the last signal, and then send that signal back along with the data it has collected. One end will have it's electronics able to be hooked into an array with other cells like it, each sending their data into the satellite the instrument is connected to.
The instrument will be calibrated in the depth of space away from the gravitational pull of most celestial bodies, essentially just signaling back and forth along the probes to zero out for the effects of it's own gravitational pull along with the travel delay of the data transmission through the wires, doing this multiple times and averaging it out over time to have an averaged zero, allowing it to measure external effects on the data transmission.
The probe array will return data to the main computer responsible for collect, calculating, and displaying the data. Each probe cell has four variables for each measure, a variable for the optical cable and a variable for the wire signal for each end of the probe. this 2x2 cell will then have the data averaged out over the types of wires giving the probe end average and then the data will have the further probe divided over the closer probe to get a rough dilation percentage experienced for the cell, which could be layed out as "((P1C1+P1C2)/2)/((P2C1+P2C2)/2) = D" (Apologies for the terrible formatting of that.) The data further can have the average time dilation per row or column of probe cells in the array and then an over all time dilation average measured out across the entire array, potentially also having the dilation divided further by the length of the probe cells used to gauge the gradient of dilation over the factor of gravity.
Finally, to operate the Time Dilation Measurement Device the Satellite would need to get into orbit of a celestial body, allowing the probe array to dip down into the gravitational pull of the celestial body before running a series of pings within the probe array to get an averaged out measurement over time.
I do not know how effective this would be at measuring this theoretical variable, but I hope someone out there may see this and be inspired in one way or another.
Thank you for your time,
W <3 L F
P.S. Sorry for being MIA, and Happy New Years.
