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scorchio~

Your Mercantile skill has increased.

iirc the big G constant seen in physics' gravity equations was first determined by someone being near a mountain and using a torsion balance to determine the effect

here's one for you: if you fly east to west you age differently than if you fly the same trip but from west to east. (it has to do with the rotation of the earth and whether your flight is fighting against the rotation of the earth or adding to it)

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experiment

basically if you fly eastward you're travelling "faster" against the backdrop of space and so experience time slower,

if you fly westward you're fighting against the spin of the earth and to someone sitting in space looking back at the earth it would look like you are going slower to them so you're experiencing life quicker than someone on ground or flying east