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Everything really is relative

Physicists demonstrate time-warping principle in the realm of the ordinary

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

Exploring the peculiar effects of Einstein’s relativity is no longer rocket science. Tabletop experiments at a lab in Colorado have illustrated the odd behavior of time, a strangeness typically probed with space travel and jet planes.

LET’S DO THE TIME WARP Relativity causes clocks in motion to tick slower than stationary clocks (top); clocks that are nearer to a massive object such as Earth also run slower (bottom).