I once read a comic book series called 'The Ballad of Halo Jones', and in it a war was taking place on a super-Earth called Moab, a planet so dense and massive, that time was severely dilated. (as in, if you were on the surface, a few minutes would last for months compared to somebody in orbit).
Even as a kid I thought this was unlikely, but now I want to ask how far off the mark was it? For instance, if you could somehow survive on the surface of a neutron star, would there be an appreciable difference in the rate of time's passage, compared to orbit?
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I once read a comic book series called 'The Ballad of Halo Jones', and in it a war was taking place on a super-Earth called Moab, a planet so dense and massive, that time was severely dilated. (as in, if you were on the surface, a few minutes would last for months compared to somebody in orbit).
Even as a kid I thought this was unlikely, but now I want to ask how far off the mark was it? For instance, if you could somehow survive on the surface of a neutron star, would there be an appreciable difference in the rate of time's passage, compared to orbit?
Here's a pic of the introduction to war on Moab, for anyone interested. The story may have been a bit silly, but the artwork was great; https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CqeiMUcl8RU/WTJKciJrWkI/AAAAAAAAHRE/w7uWc0s-wpkE1bXjSCX4n9VQNAW1f-HcwCLcB/s1600/halojones8.jpg