Eli5 if time is relative and gets effected by gravity how could we possibly determine the age of our universe?

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Eli5 if time is relative and gets effected by gravity how could we possibly determine the age of our universe?

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Most of the universe has experienced pretty much the same amount of time. The only places that have experienced meaningfully less time are regions really close to massive objects like black holes. We just measure the amount of time that has passed for most of the universe since that’s what we really care about.

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