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Originally Posted by bojan
I am sure the specific experiment can be designed, or some side effect can be figured out that would show if this is true or not.
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It can be designed as a thought experiment, however, to measure the precise amount of time dilation across the transition zone between the intervals would require an infinite number of clocks/timing devices. The reason being you're not just finding the time dilation for one discreet interval, which can be measured using just one clock...from start to finish, but you're also having to measure the time dilation whilst both clocks in adjacent intervals are taking measurements. In order to get the precise timing so an accurate effect is measured you have to know exactly when the moving object leaves one interval for another. At the transition zones, that would require an infinite number of intervals across the dividing line. You could never hope to achieve that...your measurements could only ever be an approximate.
In any case, we couldn't do the experiment in a literal sense because it would require, at the minimum, the ability to travel between the galaxies and we're flat out leaving LEO (which in my opinion is criminal, even given the primitive technology we use).