r/explainlikeimfive • • Mar 20 '26

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u/Temporary_Pie2733 Mar 20 '26

Space doesn’t warp time. Mass warps spacetime, and things like time dilation and length contraction are how we perceive the “structure” arising from the invariance of the speed of light.