Isaac Newton Was Wrong
In Interstellar (2014), a science fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan, Einstein’s theory of relativity is introduced. An expedition team takes off to find a new planet for the human race to live on. Their destination is a planet located close to a black hole, and 1 hour on the planet is equivalent to 7 years on Earth. While the father, the main character, wastes about 3 hours fighting waves in the ocean on the planet, 23 years pass by on Earth, and his daughter becomes nearly as old as him. The plot sounds like it is from a storybook.
Is it not true that time passes the same whenever and wherever, and space is also immutable for everyone? For thousands of years, we have thought ...
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