The thing is, in this case, the actual cause of time dilation is reasonably understandable. There's no need to go off and invent some wild analogy. But appare

The thing is, in this case, the actual cause of time dilation is reasonably understandable. There's no need to go off and invent some wild analogy. But apparently the average HN reader prefers a wildly inappropriate and ungrounded analogy to putting in a little time to understand the commonly accepted reasoning behind time dilation.