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How does mass slow time?
When gravity affects an object, his space-time is being curved by the mass of the one who provocates gravity. So, if time and space are being curved, the distance the object has to travel is longer, so it’s his time. In conclusion, mass curve space-time, and, by curving space time, time appears, and last longer.
Why does going faster slow down time?
As light is spread out by the observer moving away from the source of the light time is decreased. The faster the observer moves the more light is spread out and time slows down. Time slows down as you travel faster because momentum bends the fabric of spacetime causing time to pass slower.
What does slow down time mean?
In these studies, “time slowing down” refers to the overestimation of the duration of stimuli. Time slowing down understood in this sense is often explained by the means of an (hypothetical) internal clock (e.g., Gibbon, 1977; Treisman et al., 1990; Wearden, 1991).
How does mass affect the speed of time?
The bigger the mass, the more time slows down. Why is this? If I were to stand by a pyramid, which weighs about 20 million tons, I would slow down by a trillion million million million of second. Don’t know if that’s exactly right, but you get the point.
How does gravity affect time and space-time?
When gravity affects an object, his space-time is being curved by the mass of the one who provocates gravity. So, if time and space are being curved, the distance the object has to travel is longer, so it’s his time.
Why does time slow down in general relativity?
The conclusion in general relativity is that space itself is warped so it is not necessarily that time has slowed, but that spacetime is longer and so takes longer for light to travel what we perceive as a short distance. In terms of why you slow down, imagine a right angled triangle and the hypotenuse is c, the speed of light.
How do mass and acceleration affect time dilation?
Obviously, the larger the mass, the larger the acceleration, the larger the blueshift, and therefore the larger the time dilation. I understood that time is just a perceived measurement of say an oscillation of a photon. A strong gravitation field stretches the spacetime so much that the photon has “longer” distance to travel.