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← ScienceWhich effect occurs on a spacecraft's atomic clock orbiting a dense neutron star?
A)Time slows due to gravitational time dilation✓
B)Observed frequency redshifts due to Doppler effect
C)Clock accelerates from Lorentz transformations
D)Tidal forces disrupt cesium atom oscillations
💡 Explanation
Time slows on the spacecraft because the extreme gravity near a neutron star induces gravitational time dilation, a consequence of the equivalence principle; therefore, the clock ticks slower rather than other effects, because time dilation is dominant in strong gravitational fields.
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