>No. Humphreys appeals to general relativity to show that clocks operating
>on earth in a WHC since the beginning of time have elapsed a few tens of
>thousands of years, whereas clocks operating on the most distant stars have
>elapsed billions of years. This is due to the GR effect of clocks running
>slower in high gravitational fields. This is demonstrated all the time by
>clocks placed in satellites which are designed to run a little slower
>(while they are on earth) than the ground station clocks, otherwise they
>desynchronize when they put them up in space.
>
If a clock running in a high gravitational field runs more slowly than one
in a low gravitational field, would not a clock in thei extremely high
gravitational field (compared to earth's) of a distant star show much
_less_ elapsed time than one on the earth's surface? That would be
consistent with the second example above (satellite clocks)
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