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Originally Posted by Southtown
I read that page. And I understand that time dilation happens by either gravitation or acceleration. But the OP asks how it happens mechanically, and I can't answer. I imagine that both acceleration and gravitation act upon atoms in the same manner. Though I admit, the speed of light being observed equally in all inertial frames of reference kinda tweaks my noodle.
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I don't have the words be explain it myself, but I will ask, do either of these help?
TimeDilation
LengthContract
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Introduction to special relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article aims to give a gentle, non-technical introduction to the theory based on geometrical intuition and explain some of the terminology and formalism involved. A more advanced, encyclopedic description will be found in the parent article Special relativity. It will be helpful to approach relativisic mechanics by first studying some properties of the classical (Newtonian) picture.
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