eli5 How can gravity affect time?

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Ik this might be a difficult one but I genuinely want to wrap my head around this

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I will try to explain this the best I can

Space=Time

No space means no time. If there’s nothing there, then time cannot act on it, since time is things moving forward.

Now gravity can affect space, therefore it can bend time if it is strong enough.

Think of a road, and cars move on the road. The road is space.

The cars moving on the road is time. Cars will always move from point a to point b.

Now there’s a bend in the road. The bend is caused by gravity.

The car will still move from point a to point b, but the bend will increase the time it takes for the things to move.

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