Why does a clock slow down or speed up when in orbit?

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by Juan | Jan 26, 2026
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Question: Why does a clock slow down or speed up when in orbit?

The speeding up or slowing down of clocks in outerspace is not measured mechanically, but electromagnetically through atomic clocks.

This is because:

  • the differences are extremely small
  • the radiant layer (electromagnetism) is small enough to expose the differences which really come from the difference between the subtlest aspects and the crudest aspects of the spatial layer (spacetime)

Moreover, the atomic clock really is just measuring physical movement as vibrations in the atomic space (which we call the aetherspace) of the cesium atom.

  • The differences in the densities of space particles cause a corresponding change in the vibrations of the atomic space

It is the mind that actually measures the time from these physical movements, whether mechanically or electromagnetically.

  • This is beause the mind is made up of pure aether, as the substance of mind, ideas, and feelings.

A clock is just physical movement—gears, springs, atomic oscillations. Your mind converts that movement into the idea of “seconds” and “hours” and then compares them with the time of other objects.

This video explains time dilation being based on spin:

So time should be removed from the question.

Instead, the question is really asking about internal physical movement or vibration versus its external movement in space.

  • It is internal movement versus external movement

Descartes called:

  • internal movement as true motion
  • external movement as local motion

Motion is the transport, not the force or action which transports.

Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes

Principia Philosophia, Part 2, Article 24

This internal movement is seen best in time going fast when you’re having fun (high vibration).

Question: I have a fan that rotates once every second. Will the rotation be slower in outer space?

The fan rotation is external mechanical movement, not internal atomic space.

A better question is: Does a rock on earth and its atomic space internally vibrate or spin faster than the atomic space of a satellite in orbit?

GPS says that GPS is vibrating faster than the rock. This faster vibration is translated as faster time.

But a thing moving at the speed of light is vibrating slowest. This is why red wave length is long.

So in Descartes’ Physics, red shift and blue shift and rainbows are the natural proofs of relative movements.

Stop thinking in physical time. Start thinking in relational spins per perception that creates that physical time.

GPS doesn’t prove Einstein was right—it proves Descartes was closer: time is not a dimension; it’s the mind reading the dance of matter in the aether.

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