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Gravitational Time Dilation

Do you know what happened in the movie 'Interstellar', when the protagonist returned from his voyage and found that his daughter was even older than him? Well, I'll tell you how that happened.  You all must be familiar with the name of the famous scientist Albert Einstein, he was the one who suggested that space and time are interrelated where space is the three-dimensional world we live in. both of them are together termed as four-dimensional spacetime. Every object in the spacetime curves it.  The heavier the object, the greater is the curve. This is what we call warping of spacetime. Let's take the example of putting a ball on a bedsheet. When we stretch the bedsheet and put a ball on it, we'll observe that it creates a curve at that place and the heavier the ball, the larger is the curve.  The warping of spacetime is the reason that the earth revolves around the sun because mas of the earth is comparatively very small than that of the sun, so the sun creates a h...