: How does gravity cause time distortion ?

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I just can’t put my head around the fact that gravity isn’t just a force

EDIT : I now get how it gets stretched and how it’s comparable to putting a ball on a stretchy piece of fabric and everything but why is *gravity* comparable to that. I guess my new question is what is gravity ? 🙂 and how can weight affect it ?

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The TLDR; version is space and time are actually just parts of the same thing. Gravity bends space, therefore it also bends time, too.

Imagine a coin being bent by a hydraulic press. You can’t bend heads without bending tails.

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