Their might be a way to test time dilation under Lab conditions, take one sample of radioactive ions and divide them into two equal halves.
Put one sample at rest and spin the other in electric or magnetic field at high speed, afterwards check radioactive decay in both samples. If sample which was spinning, shows amount of radioactive decay significantly different than sample at rest, then time dilation might be true.
Gravity might not be a fundamental force but might be a resultant of paired forces like Magnetism or Electricity with slight bias, as it behaves like toss results of a slightly biased coin.
With few tosses, its almost impossible to know if the coin is biased, but with millions of tosses, it becomes impossible to ignore the biasness of coin, as millions of results adds up to definite biasness in one direction.
If we travel through a homogeneous galactic gas cloud, we might not detect any gravity in any one direction, only thing we might detect is higher friction than empty Space, as we travel through gas cloud.
But if all this gas is compressed at a point, then large amount of Space which it was initially occupying becomes almost frictionless due to emptiness and the concentrated matter start attracting us with Gravity, just like an Electric monopole attract or repulse point charge within its electric field.
If ideas seem silly please forgive me, me no professional, just writing for some time pass in Graveyard shift.
Very fascinating story indeed. In fact most of the major scientific and industrial units in the country had their foundations laid in the sixties with primitive facilities as narrated above. It is story of sacrifice and inspiration.In the seventies the infrastructures improved but compared to present days' standards were quite rudimentary. The seventies too heralded joining of the next generation of more qualified scientists and engineers from IITs and other Institutes of higher leaning in all such great organizations and Industries. The trained and skilled manpower in subsequent decades further reinforced all such organizations which Pandit Nehru had called “temples of democracy”. After all the giants like Homi Bhabha ,Vikram Sarabhai....and others were his 'discoveries'. Perhaps the Modi Govt. now embarks on the next IT based level of technological developments needing trained manpower of a different level that would take India in to the ‘developed world club’ of countries. Why not Rediff looks back and starts a series on such fascinating “start-up stories” of the sixties that could inspire the current generation to make sacrifices to attain ‘greater heights’.
Space is Universal.There are no limitations of regions and directions.So let us start thinking of India as a whole in place of North or South or East and West.Knowledge has no barriers nor LIMITATIONS.
