<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2379">Consider the "clock" used in the experiments to be a pendulum clock. horizontal acceleration stops the bob, clock time in terms of ticks is slowed (stopped). A pendulum clock raised to a height is also slowed. Without a gravitational field, it stops.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2381">Is there a difference between this a pendulum clock and atomic clocks? We have a good model of a pendulum clock's functioning in relation to gravity and acceleration. We don't have a good model for the decay or the lengthening of muon life. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2382">Perhaps, the observations of decay and muon life are data related to the respective mechanisms rather than time dilation.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2383">Hodge</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2384"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496601026856_2385"></div></div></body></html>