Talk:The Abyss/@comment-71.105.58.238-20190330005050/@comment-39107065-20190618205835

The theory that the guy above talks about is really cool and has actual scientific evidence to back it up. Basically, as you get closer to an object with mass (like the Earth), time for you apears to slow down to an outside observer while time seems to move normally for you. This called time dialation and it is caused by the warping of spacetime due to an object's mass. The more mass an object has, the more this affects spacetime. Also, objects with mass generate a gravitational pull on objects near them, and light can be affected by light. This is called light refraction.

Admittedly, the time dialation would be increadibly smalll (a billionth of a percent) but it's still really cool that science supports this guys theory. Even tho there is no evidence that light refraction could cause the curse, this is fantasy after all and it would be really cool if that is actually what was happening.

(sorry about the large font size)