A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside. Hearts beat, coffee cools and hair grows at the usual pace. Yet when the travelers return, they may have aged far less than people who stayed on Earth. That unsettling result does not come from radiation, weightlessness or some hidden effect of space travel. It comes from the structure of time itself. According to special relativity…
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