ELI5, can some please explain to me how time dialation works?

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Like how can time move slightly faster when i’m somewhere else? Also how, like in interstellar, a day on our planet was like 1,4 seconds on that one planet? I can’t seem to wrap my head around the concept of that…

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Think of the speed of light, light has no mass so it can go that fast, but mass trying to go that fast, mass experiences a time that slows down almost infinitely at that exact threshold of the speed of light, but that is just the exotic state of energy in our universe, we’re fuckin matter, if we go so many percent the speed of light, any changes to our direction equal g-forces that disintegrate us, but we are on a planet thrown at around 34 kilometers per second forward, downward at the sun, and the speed of light is like, hundreds of millions of km’s per second.. there’s also a thing where matter gains infinite mass as it reaches or passes the speed of light, and the correlation of that is with time passing slower closer to gravity sources, so factoring all that together, the squishyness of time that you like to live in, sloshed off the universe 18 billion years ago and is frothing off the surf that is our galaxy as our solar system in its particular arrangement of direction* and velocity relative to everything else.

thankfully i didn’t speak about quarks and their three ‘baryonic matter’ types winking between each type in moments of time or something regarding baryons and leptons.. i guess we are lucky.

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