Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible
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Think of time like a river flowing from one place, the past, to another, the future. It doesn’t bend, it’s just straight and the same depth all along. The water, or time, will flow at the same rate all along, right? Now, assume all of a sudden the river gets a lot deeper and wider. The same amount of water is entering, but it slows down at that spot because there’s a lot more space to fill. That’s a spot of extreme gravity. The same “amount’ of time is there, but it is being slowed down and held back.
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