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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Space and time are one and the same thing, or at least they’re so entwined that what affects kne also affects the other. Gravity isn’t so much a force as it’s the warping effect mass has on spacetime. The stronger the gravity, the more spacetime is warped, and thus the slower time passes.

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