The miraculous in the common 常道

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Vol. XXXIII, No. 7)
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson in Nature, Chapter VIII, 1836

In his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein equated gravity with the curvature of space around a massive body. The effect is quite negligible for light masses but becomes important for massive stars and even more so for very compact massive objects such as neutron stars, whose gravity is 100,000 times stronger than at the sun's surface. Distortions of space caused by a larger mass (stars) will cause small moving masses (planets) to deviate from what Newtonian gravity predicts. Another remarkable consequence of Einstein's theory of gravity is the slowing down of clocks in strong gravitational fields: strong gravity bends space and slows down time.