Gravitational dilation as a density shadow

In standard relativity, clocks run slower deeper in a gravitational field because spacetime is curved there. RSI offers a mechanical cause.

As set out in Chapter V of the paper, RSI describes a gravity well as a region where the tension of the Eternal Consonance is slackened by the density shadows of massive objects. A clock on the surface of a massive body therefore sits in more slackened medium than a clock in orbit.

The internal waves of its knots circulate more slowly there, just as a guitar string let down from full tension sounds a lower note. The internal 137-Escapement of each matter-knot, the mechanism by which the knot keeps time with the background pulse, slows with it, and so does the clock. The clock's rate is reduced by the fraction GM/rc². Between two heights the difference was measured by Robert Pound and Glen Rebka across 22.5 meters in 1959, and optical atomic clocks now detect it across a single millimeter. In RSI, the surface clock lags because its parts run in a slackened medium, not because time itself has been bent.