How does gravity effect time?

Question

does gravity warp time? in what way?

Answer 1

I wish I knew - and so don't physicists.

But, the effects of gravity and acceleration (identical effects according to Einstein) cause a clock to run slower the greater the gravitational field or the greater the acceleration.

Also, at speeds approaching that of light, time slows dramatically (t1=t/sq rt1-v2/c2)

According to relativity, this is simply a phenomenon of time vs. the space warp caused by gravity, acceleration and relativistic speeds.

It is the foundation of the famous "twin paradox." It is also the reason that time is commonly accepted as the fourth dimension.

These are not exactly intuitive ideas - even Einstein often struggled with the results of his formulas - wondering if his results were reality of just mathematical flukes - fortunately, he possessed the genius to deduct that they were indeed the reality - subsequent experiments and observations have repeatedly proven him correct.

Answer 2

Recent articles in Scientific American and Discover Magazine will tell you simply (I use this word for amusement) that time and gravity are the same thing. The problem in discerning this particularly aggravating paradox is what physicists have been trying to do for the last half century; namely, to develop a theory of quantum gravity to explain black holes.
Here is another thing that recently has come to light: a two dimensional universe without gravity is equivalent to a three dimensional universe with gravity. I cannot get my mind around that, but it keeps me occupied.
How does gravity warp time? Consider a black hole--black because no radiation (not strictly true btw) can escape; a BH is so densely gravitational that the BH reprsents a rift, warp as it were in the space-time continuum. This is the stuff of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

Answer 3

Gravity effects time by slowing down. An object in a gravity field has a faster time then an object outside of the gravity field. For isntance, the twin paradox where one twin ages on earth and the other doesnt in a rocket travelling at the speed of light.

Answer 4

It's been proven that the more gravity something undergoes the more time slows down. The closer to the speed of light an object gets the more time slows until it reaches complete lack of motion; this is because at the speed of light there is so much gravity effecting an object that it in itself weighs as much as the universe itself.

Answer 5

Gravity itself is the warping of space time graph.

Answer 6

General Relativity shows that gravity dialates or slows time. The higher in a gravitational field you are, the faster time goes. The closer to the speed of light you get, the more massive you get and the more energy you need to reach the speed of light, so much more energy that you never can reach it. If you could reach the speed of light you would be infinitely massive.

Answer 7

A clock at greater gravitational potential will tick faster; time will progress more rapidly.

Answer 8

MEST creates gravity. MEST is matter, energy, time and space.

Answer 9

man i didnt even know that it did. but good to know that it actually does.