Ugh. It sounds like the author learned just a little bit about GR, just enough to be dangerous. He's got it backwards, for one thing. Under a gravitation field, time is compressed. More gravity -> more compression. The ultimate expression of this is in a black hole. As you approach the singularity of a BH, gravity approaches infinity, and time approaches zero.

His second error is that within your frame of reference, time is the same. Let's assume his factor of 30 for Sol is correct (for the sake of argument). Put a hypothetical clock and an observer on the chromosphere of the sun. The observer on the sun sees time ticking away just fine, at a normal rate. His metabolic processes are fine. Etc. We on the Earth, looking at him and his clock see that things are proceeding 30 times slower than here. If he subjectively stayed on the sun for one standard Earth-day, he'd come back to see that a month went by.

All his measuring devices would not show any change. It's only when compared to devices outside his frame of reference that anything hinky appears.

This guy's use of GR to attempt to disprove Apollo is a first for me, but it ranks pretty high on my BS-ometer.

Ugh.

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