Gravitational Time Dilation

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/