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2024-04-04 10:00:37 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

This is false. Every hour on the moon would be 2.33 microseconds longer, not milliseconds. There are 1000 microseconds in every millisecond. It would take approximately 4,226,034.7 years for the moon to gain a whole day due to time dilation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00185-z#:~:text=The%20Moon's%20gravitational%20pull%20is,56%20microseconds%20over%2024%20hours.

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• This is false. Every hour on the moon would be 2.33 microseconds longer, not milliseconds. There are 1000 microseconds in every millisecond. It would take approximately 4,226,034.7 years for the moon to gain a whole day due to time dilation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00185-z#:~:text=The%20Moon's%20gravitational%20pull%20is,56%20microseconds%20over%2024%20hours.