Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible
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Via space.
You are familiar with the gravity model that is visualised as a rubber sheet with weights on it? It shows us that objects in orbit are actually travelling in straight lines as far as they are concerned and that space itself curves around a planet.
Well our current understanding doesn’t really differentiate space from time. That’s where ‘space-time’ comes from. So anything that impacts one, impacts the other. Mass curves time via gravity and space
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