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An example will clarify the point. Assume that you were put into a
room with a single window, specifically designed; and were kept there for
a certain period of time. A clock on the walls shows you the amount of

time that has passed. During this "time," from the room's window, you see
the sun setting and rising at certain intervals. A few days later, questioned
about the amount of time spent in the room, you would give an answer
based on the information you had collected by looking at the clock from
time to time, as well as by counting how many times the sun had set and
risen. Say, for example, you estimate you'd spent three days in the room.
However, if the person who put you in there says that you spent only two
days in there; that the sun you saw from the window was falsely produced;
and that the clock in the room was especially regulated to move faster,
then your calculation would be erroneous.
This example dramatizes that the information we have about the rate of
time's passing is based only on references that change according to the
perceiver.
That time is relative is a scientific fact, also proven by scientific method-
ology. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity maintains that the speed of
time changes depending on the speed of the object and its distance from
the centre of gravity. As speed increases, time is shortened - compressed -
and slows down until it approaches to the point of stopping entirely.
Einstein himself gave an example. Imagine two twins, one of whom
remains on Earth while the other goes into space at a speed close to the
speed of light. On his return, the traveler will find that his brother has

grown much older than he has. The reason is that time flows much more
slowly for the person who travels at near-light speed. What about a space-
traveling father and his son who stays behind on Earth? If the father were
27 years old when he set out, and his son was only three, the father, when
he comes back 30 years later in Earth time, will be only 30, whereas his
son will be 33 years old! 33
This relativity of time is caused not by clocks slowing down or running
fast. Rather, it's the result of the differentiated operational periods of the
entire material system, as deep as sub-atomic particles. In such a setting

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