Came up with a probe concept for empirically measuring time dilation in real time somebody please tell me this is plausible
So I've been going down a rabbit hole on time dilation and somewhere along the way ended up with what I think might be a legitimate experiment concept. No physics background, just followed the logic until it stopped breaking. Wanted to see if anyone here could find where it falls apart.
The basic idea is a minimalist probe no crew, no life support, stripped down to just a power source, a recorder and a transmitter. Instead of accelerating it linearly to near light speed which is obviously way beyond anything we can do it spins in place fast enough that the surface velocity approaches relativistic speeds. Time dilation doesn't care about direction just velocity so the effect should still apply while the probe stays stationary.
For power it would use Mercury orbit as a charging phase first. Nine times the solar intensity of Earth plus nuclear means you're not carrying fuel for the whole journey and you're not depending on solar once it leaves the inner system.
The cage is the part I'm least sure about. A separate outer structure counter-rotating around the probe with no physical connection between them held in relative position by the opposing angular momentum. Takes the particle bombardment damage while the probe stays intact. No attachment means no junction weak point.
The transmission is the actual experiment. Continuous telemetry including onboard clock data compared against a stationary reference clock on the ground. Instead of confirming time dilation happened after the fact like existing atomic clock experiments, you'd be watching the divergence accumulate in real time from both sides of the temporal frame simultaneously.
Main problems I already know about: materials don't exist yet that survive the rotational stress, spin-up energy requirements are way beyond current tech, and the signal decoding from a relativistically rotating transmitter is unsolved. So yes it hits the same wall everything hits right now. But the physics itself I can't find a hole in.
Can anyone tell me where this actually breaks?