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Which effect emerges due to faster-than-predicted oscillations in quartz clocks under stress?

A)Increased resonant frequency instability
B)Enhanced piezoelectric charge accumulation
C)Greater elastic mechanical deformation
D)Relative time-dilation effects onset

💡 Explanation

Under sufficient stress, quartz crystal deformations produce accelerations equivalent to gravitational fields, initiating time dilation; this is because of the equivalence principle. Therefore, observers measure slightly slower time, rather than increased frequency instability, because only relativity predicts this outcome.

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