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In reference to Leyzorek's News Anthology- Issue No. 16:
I found the bit that covered the atomic clocks launched in 2014 that are in elliptical orbit, thus dilating time, fascinating. Coincidentally, soon after reading this issue I was sent a poem that was on the same topic. In my own opinion, it is a neat piece of poetry in that explains gravitational time dilation in a unique way.
Gravitational Time Dilation
by Kathrine Lo
says a massive body, body of a large mass
will slow time, clocks here on heavy earth
ticking less often than clocks out in space,
clocks launched in rockets, racing far
when your body feels flung back
against the seat in a car’s acceleration,
it’s really the seat pushing you forward.
And you could never see someone fall
into a black hole, should you ever find
one while hiking or on a blind date,
because time stops at the edge
of the strongest mass contained
in a certain radius, at least in the minds
of those who understand such things,
which I do not. What I do understand
is that nothing is what it seems,
and what feels like pulling might instead
be pushing, and what feels like falling
is something rising beneath you.
Your slow drift from God is really
God running to meet you,
to throw a robe over your shoulders,
to kiss your face and ask
what took you so long to arrive?
Used with permission from the director of Rattle, as well as the author Kathrine Lo.
The original publishing can be found here: https://www.rattle.com/gravitational-time-dilation-by-katherine-lo/
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