Another reason that affects our body’s aging, which we probably haven’t even thought about before, is gravity.
But how is such a thing possible?
Gravity affects the aging of the body.
We can go deeper into this complex situation with the theory of general relativity. According to Einstein’s theory, gravity directly affects the flow of time. So, how does this affect our aging?
Because gravity is defined as the warping of space and time, the distance to an object affects the passage of time. In regions closer to the Earth’s surface, the influence of gravity becomes more pronounced. Therefore, people living at sea level live in a world where time passes faster than those living at higher altitudes.
Someone who spent 30 years at the top of Mount Everest is only 0.91 milliseconds older than someone who spent the same amount of time at sea level.
Although this small difference is not felt in daily life, it reveals a striking fact about the warping of time and the effects of gravity. Research on the effect of living at high altitudes on aging shows that gravity slows down the flow of time and this affects the aging process.
People living at higher altitudes age slightly faster than those at sea level. This is considered as a result of moving away from the area of influence of gravity.
As physicist James Chin-wen Chou puts it, “Gravity ages us relatively slowly.”
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