/sci/ - Science & Math

Because of general relativity the areas with greater gravity would have a slower perception of time right? I get that it would be totally minor and maybe like 1 second different over 50 million years but it would be there right?

>Goce satellite views Earth's gravity in high definition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm

>the map on this page defines the horizontal - a surface on which, at any point, the pull of gravity is perpendicular to it.

Put a ball on this hypothetical surface and it will not roll - even though it appears to have "slopes". These slopes can be seen in the colours which mark how the global level diverges from the generalised (an ellipsoid) shape of the Earth.

MY MIND = BLOWN

Fuck yeah, gravity map!