Time Is Just A Concept

[moonbogg]

For us, a meter is just a quick step. To an ant... that's quite a distance. Doesn't change the size nor definition of a meter just because something perceives it differently.

What confuses me about this is that you could say the same about the universe. We know its big relative to us, but with nothing to compare the universe itself to, how big is it really and does size have any meaning? If time is illusory, maybe space is also.
We measure the past and future in our minds, and these are but concepts. Yet we cannot measure the only "real" aspect of time, the present. This suggests it is illusory. If space and time are one and the same, then both may be illusory.

 

[disappoint]

Neat video, thanks for posting it. Looked like a sci-fi episode where people are frozen in time. B/W makes it seem like it came out of a Twilight Zone episode.

 

[ElFenix]

High speed video recording in NYC at Grand Central station.

Grand Central Terminal

 

[Triumph]

What confuses me about this is that you could say the same about the universe. We know its big relative to us, but with nothing to compare the universe itself to, how big is it really and does size have any meaning? If time is illusory, maybe space is also.
We measure the past and future in our minds, and these are but concepts. Yet we cannot measure the only "real" aspect of time, the present. This suggests it is illusory. If space and time are one and the same, then both may be illusory.

Space, time, and matter itself may be illusory. Spend some time researching the double slit experiment on youtube. Fundamental paradox of physics and reality. Photons interact with one another across time and space, and photons also interact with each other differently when you observe them. Ok that's a little weird, but photons are massless so maybe that's why they can do that. But wait, it also works for electrons...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

Mind blown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_BW62GAoI

 

[DigDog]

If you are a dog, there is no green/red, so there is absolutely no difference between the two.

Nope. They see both, but dont see them as green or red.

 

[Braznor]

Time is not an absolute quality. Different animals perceive time in different scales of perception depending on their internal brain chemistry and even time in a physical sense is a relativistic attribute and not an absolute.

The faster one travels closer to the speed of light, the more the time dilation for such a traveler alongwith spatial elongation too. Also due to relativistic effects, any two observers observing a single same event will do so only at different points of temporal reference.