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Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang (phys.org)
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This doesn't mean you would know it was slower if you were there at the time. A second would still feel like a second. But, relative to us, it was five times slower.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I knew space and time were interlinked, and that space is expanding, but for some reason I never figured time would be expanding too.
Well, except it seems that it's contracting rather than expanding.