In Interstellar when they were on the water planet, every minute they spent there, several days passed on Earth. From outside observer’s point of view from Earth, everything happening on the water planet was in slow motion. Why isn’t it the other way around?
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According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, big objects with lots of gravity bend the fabric of time and space, like bowling balls on a trampoline. The closer you get to these objects, the stronger the pull of gravity and the slower time moves.
The stronger the gravity, the more spacetime curves, and the slower time itself proceeds. Time itself is slowing down and speeding up because of the relativistic way in which mass warps space and time. Earth’s mass warps space and time so that time actually runs slower the closer you are to earth’s surface.
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