Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible

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Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible

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Answer 1

It just does. The thing we describe as gravity has that effect, and it seems to be a fundamental property of objects with mass/energy.

“Why does gravity affect my position in space?” is the same question, but it doesn’t feel wrong, because we see that effect every day, while gravity’s effect on time requires high precision atomic clocks to even be measured.