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The person in the flat below you will age more slowly than you

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One curious consequence of the theory of relativity was time dilation, which means that time moves slower the closer one is to a massive object. Although this effect is small on Earth, it is noticeable. "If you live in a two-story house on the top floor, you will age faster than your neighbor below by about 10 nanoseconds in one year," said quantum physicist Igor Pikovski at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "This tiny effect has actually been confirmed in many experiments with very precise clocks.

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