Where in space would time be 100% unaffected, and thus, measure time in it's purest form?

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Time is relative, and thus, it's not the same everywhere. For example...should you travel on a plane, your time goes by slower than for the people on the ground, travelling at slower speeds. Time also slows in high gravity, therefore it's slower on Earth, than it would be on a larger, denser planet for example, or near a star. So if someone was to travel to a far away place in the universe, where there's much, much higher gravity, they'd measure time differently than us, even though to them, it would appear as if time is the same. If we were to look at the clocks, they'd appear to move at different speeds, yet when you bring them together, they'd measure time the same way (although by now, they'd be out of sync). 

So, is there a place in the universe, where the factors that effect time, is nullified to the extent that should you place a clock there, it would measure time in it's purest form?

(I understand that we'd still measure it in minutes, and hours, which was created based on Earthly events such as the rotation and orbit of the Earth...so this question is merely aimed at whether or not, there are areas in space that's unaffected by forces that effect time itself)

? · Accepted Answer

Time is relative. There is no such thing as "pure" time. It only has any meaning in relation to the point at which you want to measure it. Anywhere you want to measure time, that is its "pure" form, but it only has meaning from that specific point.

? · Answer

No matter where you are in the universe, your time progression will always be different in relation to an alternate place in the universe. There is no standard. Time progression is slower in some places and faster in others in relation to you.

It seems like you already understand that time is relative, that a watch on your wrist will always tick at the same pace in relation to you no matter where you are or how fast you're moving. If you want to tell the time at a certain point in the universe, I'm sure that can be done by some simple mathematical equation, just as long as you know the gravitational pull (warped space-time) in both locations and directly related relative velocity.

Large Hardon Supercollider · Answer

There would be the least outside influences acting on your direction through time somewhere in the vast intergalactic void, perfectly still relative to space (thus moving only due to the expansion).  However, your heart would still be beating and your blood would be moving and you would still be breathing so various organs and tissues in your body would be experiencing slightly different rates of time.

What you have to understand is that the difference between the time we experience on Earth and the time that you would experience without the effects of movement or gravity is tiny.  It only makes a difference if you need a very precise measurement, as with GPS satellites.  The only places in the universe where time is drastically effected are the areas around black holes.

DLM · Answer

There is no such thing.  Time is as relative as anything can get.  It has no absolutes.  Nobody can be stationary relative to everything, especially in an expanding universe.   

There are a lot more details you can read up on to understand this.  I would start out with something simple about Special Relativity, and move on to a more advanced reading on that subject, before moving on to General Relativity.

campbelp2002 · Answer

There is no stationary place. The background radiation is not a stationary standard any more than the average of all distant galaxies is. Relativity says there is no absolute; that everything is relative. That idea may make you feel a bit lost and out of control in the universe, but that is just the way it is.

Anonymous · Answer

time is affected by gravity ( anything with mass has gravity) so time is pure where there is no gravity. not possible sorry, only at an infinite distance away from everything is time anaffected, as here the gravity is zero. but there is always gravity, so time is always "bent"

? · Answer

Ahh... I don't know. If time was 100% unaffected in some place, wouldn't we be affected by it? I mean... would we keep moving around and talking sh!t if time is what makes us do that? I'm confused...

Anonymous · Answer

The value of gravity is ZERO at the centre of the earth, so probably there, if only the gravitational forces from the other planets don't affect the position.

brijesh a · Answer

Somebody's Rolex, I guess.

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