I just got round to watching Interstellar and there’s a whole lot about Relativaty and how one hour on one planet is the same as one year on Earth. How does that happen?
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Black holes bend space time. Space time is basically the fabric of the universe. Think of it like two marbles swirling down a funnel. The marble swirling at the top of the funnel takes a while to go all the way around. But the marble towards the narrow part of the funnel is going all the way around wayyyyy faster. You with me?
Our sun orbits our black hole at a freaking crazy slow rate cuz we’re super far away from it. So our concept of time is basically based on that. But closer to the black hole (narrow part of the funnel) them shits is swirling around way quicker so from our point of view they are sprinting while from their point of view we are just absolutely crawling. That’s because time is *relative* to each observing party.
I know, it’s nutty. This is how I’ve explained it to myself and I think it’s fairly on point but others can definitely correct me.
EDIT: okay so I am off base I guess. My bad. I knew you guys would let me know.
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