Time is faster at your head
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Gravity slows time nearer your feet.
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0:00 Time runs very slightly faster at your head
0:02 than at your feet.
0:03 Under general relativity,
0:05 the farther you are from Earth's centre,
0:07 the weaker gravity is and the faster time
0:10 flows.
0:10 The gap is tiny —
0:11 billionths of a second over years —
0:14 but ultra-precise atomic clocks really do
0:17 measure it.