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Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein is saying that time feels different depending on what you’re experiencing—pleasant moments seem to pass quickly, while painful ones drag on. This illustrates how our perception of time changes based on the situation, which is the basic idea behind relativity.

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