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Subject: Relative to time and gravity--are your feet younger than your head?

Date: Tue Jul 27 00:17:12 1999
Posted by CRAIG
Grade level: undergrad School: UF
City: Gainesville State/Province: No state entered. Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Physics
ID: 933052632.Ph
Message:

Is it true that the closer you are to mass then time slows down 
relative to objects farther away from that body of mass? For 
example if I were to stretch my feet all the way to the center 
of the Earth (which is heavier than the mantle or crust) with my 
head sticking out the surface, which would go through time 
faster? My feet or my head?  Also if I were to go into the 
center of the sun (which has more mass and stronger gravity) 
would time go slower for me than for people on the earth?


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