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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 exam-
ple, 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 pro-
duced; 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 ac-
cording to the perceiver.
That time is relative is a scientific fact, also proven by scientific
methodology. 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 center 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! 17
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 parti-