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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Can We Travel through Time?
Bob explains that time slows down closer to massive bodies. Alice is lowered down towards a black hole. Bob ages differently to Alice, and when they are reunited Bob is much older than Alice – explained by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
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