Feynman mentioned to us that he understood a topic in physics if he could explain it to a college freshman, a high school student, or a dinner guest. Here we will discuss two topics that took us a while to get to that level. One is the relationship between gravity and time. The other is the minus sign that appears in the Lagrangian. (Why would one subtract potential energy from kinetic energy?) In this paper we discuss a thought experiment that relates gravity and time. Then we use a Feynman thought experiment to explain the minus sign in the Lagrangian. Our surprise was that these two topics are related.