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...Popper studied the faint "white dwarf" star, 40 Eridani B, which is 40% as heavy as the sun but only about as big as Mars. Its high concentration of mass forms a powerful gravitational field at the star's surface, where its light comes from. Besides, 40 Eridani B is a member of a double-star system, which allows its speed to be measured accurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slow Time | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...spectrograms of his star's light, Dr. Popper found that its wave lengths are, as he had hoped, slightly longer than is normal. This meant that white-dwarf time really does run slow, just as Einstein predicted. The difference is not much. A man living on 40 Eridani B would fall behind by about six earthly seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slow Time | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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