Guys, I was actually planning to write a post about physics,..
Guys, I was actually planning to write a post about physics,
but I’m currently at a tattoo session getting my bracelet finished,
and I’m way too lazy to type properly with one hand.
So, here’s the short version:
The speed of light is constant — always, no matter what.
And time bends itself around that fact.
Light speed absolutely hates competition — like, say, if you’re sprinting to the bathroom with diarrhea, time will literally slow down.
Can’t risk you arriving faster than the light.
It also hates warped space — like the kind created by very massive objects,
black holes, for example. Or even Earth.
These objects sort of dent space, like putting a heavy ball on a blanket.
Light has to travel along the curve, which makes its journey longer.
And when light takes longer — time slows down.
Near a black hole, if you watch someone falling in, it’ll seem like they’re just standing there at the edge,
frozen in place, never actually crossing over.
Real-world application: GPS satellites literally use these calculations,
so your pizza doesn’t get delivered 100 kilometers off course.
The satellites are moving fast — time slows down.
But they’re farther from Earth’s gravity dent, so the light path is straighter.
To make the signal accurate, the system has to calculate the difference between that motion-based slowdown and the gravity-based time curve.
Otherwise — no pizza. Or worse: pizza in Belarus.
