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What confuses me about this idea though, is with this increase in density of space around an object with mass, why does your speed increase when you have to traverse more space? I’ll clarify; if you are traveling at a constant velocity, I assume this means that you are flowing through a certain number of spatial units per unit time and this ratio is constant, regardless of an increase in spatial density (I don’t want to misuse the term metric-field, but perhaps this is what it is). If you approach an object with mass, this number of spatial units is becoming more numerous and there are more “lines of magnitude” of a metric-field, I suppose.
It does. You perceive time to slow down in a gravitational field or, more appropriately, a 3rd observer from afar would see your clock ticking a bit faster than theirs.
This makes sense up to items crossing an event horizon of a black hole, where a 3rd observer would see you fall in, but you would never perceive reaching it.
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