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by guramarx11 2394 days ago
I heard from someone about the relativity of spacetime, time is slowest near the center of a huge gravity source like blackhole so out here earth time is actually relatively fast and are speeding up due to expansion, as the further our galaxy/universe is flying apart the less mass and less gravity can slow them down

So our relative spacetime scale of a billion years here, might just be a few hours inside some of those crazy dense SUPER MASSIVE blackholes

And with that in mind and some loose sense our whole simulation might just took 1 second of the creator's relative time because...time is relative , just a loose assumption

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The first time I heard of this being noticeable on a human timescale was the movie Interstellar. But I don't no think in real life there is that much of a difference between the rate at which time passes near a large mass.

This answer on Quora says the rate at which time passes on Jupiter is only a few nanoseconds off compared to Earth.

https://www.quora.com/Will-time-pass-slower-if-we-go-to-Jupi...

IIRC I read that for an outside observer everything that is sucked into a black hole does never actually pass "into" it. The closer it gets to the event horizon, the slower it's clock runs (from an outside perspective), and gradually stops upon approaching the horizon itself. [!] That seems like a rather large difference.

[!] Disclaimer: I don't know if that interpretation is still considered valid.

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I read recently, I've forgotten where, that the cumulative time difference for the center of the earth (relative to the surface) is about four minutes.