บท 143: Space To Improve

"That cannot be!" General Sreev declared for what felt like the millionth time.

"I assure you, it is," Kir said. "Space and time are the same thing, and since gravity affects space, it also affects time. We are moving marginally faster in time than an object farther from this world, and slightly faster still than an object outside the solar system, and still slightly faster than an object existing on its own, with no other object to be attracted to."

Kir was enjoying himself. It had taken all of two hours to reverse their dynamic once he'd made the first crack in Sreev's frankly medieval notions. And all without doing any math whatsoever. The hours after that had flown by.

In that time, Sreev had managed to fill fourteen pages with facts that he needed to verify. Kir, of course, had provided him with a few experiments that would do just that. They were in a pause when Captain Litty interrupted them to deliver the day's report.