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If there were a Time Warp, how would Physicists find it?

NASA satellite Gravity Probe B confirmed general relativity with 99% accuracy by observing how Earth distorts the space around it

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It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have already detected a time warp. But what does this mean? Basically, a time warp is some phenomenon that changes the flow of time by speeding it up or making it run more slowly.

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Physicists have known about time warps for over 100 years: In fact, you’re standing on a kind of time warp right now.

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, followed a decade later by his sequel on general relativity, which stated that gravity is a property of the curving of space and time — the fabric of our universe. As a result, anything that has mass can warp time.

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