Does mass effect the speed at which time is experienced?

Answer 1

Someone else already gave the correct answer. It does not affect the way in which you experience time. In fact nothing does. Travel at near the speed of light and time would still seem like usual for you. However it does afftect how others see you. If you lived on a very massive planet - assuming that you could survive there - then people would see you as moving slow but to you, everything would be just normal (well at least in your little day to day doings). But say you looked at some other planet with a telescope, now those people would appear to be moving fast.

Think about falling into a black hole, you got a lot of gravity and stuff there. People outside in fact would never see you enter the black hole although you yourself would (assuming the black hole is massive enough and you are not torn apart by tidal forces before you cross the event horizon). And once you pass the event horizon there is no going back. You are stuck there. Now if we assume not only that you haven't died on the way into the black hole, and that you can see the light which has an infinite blue shift due to the black hole you would be able to see some weird things. If you looked away from the singularity at the centre of the black hole you would be able to see the whole universe in one small patch of the sky - even the stuff that is actually behind the singularity! Also time outside would appear to be running much faster, outside events would "flash" before your eyes.

Answer 2

No, time is always experienced to pass for yourself at the same rate regardless of mass or speed. Others' clocks may be measured to be slower or faster than one's own depending on mass.

Answer 3

You will always experience your own time the same way. What changes is how you perceive that time passes for other people and objects, and how they perceive that it passes for you.
Masses near you will definitely slow your clock, but you can't directly perceive this since you will slow down with it. All you will notice is that your clock no longer ticks at the same rate as someone else's clock who isn't near the mass.

So yes, mass will affect your time, but no, you won't notice it directly.

Answer 4

well if space in insperable from time, as it is according to the space time continueum theory, then any object massive enough would cause space to warp and therefore time as well. like how time does not exist inside of a blackhole (i think)

Answer 5

100%, unequivocally, yes.