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by munty13 | November 11, 2008 at 12:34 am
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TZZZZzzzzzz... Have you ever picked up your sandal and tried to swat that annoying little mosquito you are sharing a holiday hotel room with? It will always confound us on just how many times we miss because the tiny swine is just too darned fast. After a time, the mosquito starts to take on the appearance of predicting our every move - it's practically taunting us. With science developing new ideas about the way we look at time, we are starting to understand that the mosquito is not necessarily moving fast, but that it is us whom are percieving things very, very slowly. New proposals about time are about to turn everything that we thought we knew about our Universe on its head.
Let's imagine the scene where I am about to try and bring down my sandal on the head of that pesky mosquito. In the room we have set-up two digital cameras (don't worry, nothing sordid's going on). One of the camera's has a shutter speed which opens and closes in seconds, while the other camera's using a shutter speed which is a thousand times faster and operates in milliseconds. By the time I have raised and lowered my hand, the mosquito has made good its' escape. It's as if the little brute saw me coming a mile-off, so let's see if by playing back the two films that were taken, we might catch a better idea of what's happening from the perspective of the mosquito.
Each camera has an LCD display which will play-back the film at the rate of one exposure per second. We'll start with the film taken where the shutter speed plodded and took a second to open and close. It shows me with my hand in the air, now it's halfway down and then it's ..SLAM... 4 seconds and it's all over. Next we play the film where the shutter speed was in milliseconds. Okay, so my hands in the air...... still in the air..... I count to 200 and it's barely budged an inch. I've got time to make a cup of tea, pop to the shops, and watch a bit of telly because this film is 1000 times as long as the previous one - it would take over an hour to watch it.
What the shutter speed is inferring as it opens and closes, is my rate of perception - or rather the speed at which neurons open and close circuits in the brain. The rate of perception is how long it takes the brain to process the outside world into information the mind can understand. This process in the brain is dictated by signals carried by neurons. If you reduce the distance travelled by these signals by half, you effectively double the speed at which the brain understands the outside world. Try to imagine that our blood-sucking fiend, on account of its very small size and very simple brain, is able to percieve reality much faster than I can - my vengeful sandal would appear like it was moving in slow motion. No wonder it felt like the mosquito was blowing raspberries at me.
Okay. Now for the biggy. What does this mean for Einstein's Theory of Relativity? Is it wrong? For his calculations Einstein required a measuring stick which was unchanging and invariable, and one which would remain as a reliable benchmark for any observer regardless of their position in space. It was something which needed to comply with both the macrocosm and the microcosm. Einstein's genius came in choosing the speed of light as that benchmark. Scientists now understand that Einstein fell into the trap of believing the speed of light is constant and independent of an observer, where in-fact, the speed of light is actually a variable that is wholly dependent upon an observer.
According to Einstein the speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000 km/s. It takes light travelling from the Sun, 9 minutes to reach our planet. Imagine then that we have two observers watching the sky from my backyard. In this experiment we are going to turn on a torch from the position of the Sun, 150 million kilometres away, and then we shall ask both our observers to each make a steady, ticking head-count to imitate a clock - 1...2...3...4... and to then count the time it takes for the light travel to Earth. One of the observers I shall take into my laboratory (think Weird Science), and shrink to a size where the distance travelled by signals in his brain are halved. We are effectively accelerating his brain's shutter speed to being twice as fast as normal, so that the brain is able to communicate with itself at a speed which is twice that of ours, and his mind will produce twice the amount of conscious thoughts.
This difference in the rate of perception would become much more apparent once we hear each observers' head-count - the observer we shrank will make a count that is twice the speed of ours. When we tally-up all the seconds this tiny little man counted for the light to reach the Earth from the Sun, it reaches a figure that is no longer 9 minutes but nearer 18 minutes! Our dwindled chum has experienced the speed of light as 150,000 km/s - half its normal speed. This demonstrates that the speed of light is not a constant, and that the speed of light is dependent upon the rate of experience. Einstein's Theory of Relativity has been proven wrong. There's no such thing as space-time. The Universe has been deflated from the four-dimensional space that we thought it was. The true nature of the Universe is zero-point energy. The balloon has well and truly burst.
Time is thus revealed as this incredible intrapersonal experience. Every living thing on Earth is revealed as its very own clock. The ticking hands of the clock of the Universe no longer exist, and on a very real and fundamental level, all we have is 'now'. In each and every single of one those moments which we so often overlook and discard, there is the potential of infinite possibilities.
Will scientists now be able to merge all the forces in the Universe with gravity into a Theory of Everything? Probably. But perhaps this is more of an opportunity for each and every one of us who live on this planet, to finally understand how important our own place is in the grand scheme of the Universe. For if you, as an indivual, were not here to make the simple act of observation - time and space would not even exist.
I would like to thank these sites for aiding my research, and they are well worth a look if you get time....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_synapse
http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s2.htm
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/510
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/scientists-show-time-and-space-do-not-exist
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at 10:39 on November 11th, 2008
Nah. It isn't quantum effects either.
at 13:09 on November 11th, 2008
Your post is quite interesting and it seems to me you are absolutely onto something here, however there seems to be one glaring problem with your argument as presented. Namely, that the passage of time is not at all a function of how rapidly our brains can handle new sensory input, a process which you have in a most interesting manner likened to a camera's shutter speed. To wit :
Source: bipm.org
If our brains operated more rapidly then certainly our perception of the passage of time would tell us a second would have a longer duration, but clearly, light would still travel the same distance in that one-second period irregardless of the processing rate of any observer's instrumentation.
The implications of speeded up metabolism was actually explored quite dramatically in the old American TV series, The Wild Wild West, in an episode entitled THE NIGHT OF THE BURNING DIAMOND , which first aired in 1966.
at 13:20 on November 11th, 2008
Time, whatever else we say about it, is still an unknown. The time dimension used in physics is not the time used in philosophy. As a dimension in Einstein's tensors it seems clear enough, but as the dimension of thought it hasn't been nailed down to everyone's satisfaction.
at 15:22 on November 11th, 2008
Hi Philip. Thankyou for your comment.
The brain is made of nerve cells. Each one of billions of nerve cells creates the precise amount of electricity that it uses to transfer its particular code. The nerve cells create the electrical signals that they use by sending sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell wall at rates varying up to 1000 changes per second.In 1/1000 of a second, the cell changes from a negative charge to a positive charge and then back again. Imagine this cell change taking place at twice the speed - every 1/2000 of a second - and the brain will think twice as fast.
Now imagine my rate of perception is a 1000 times faster than yours. We're in a room together. Someone walks in and flicks the light on and off. For you the darkness would have lasted one second. I experienced the darkness for 1000 seconds (16 minutes). I couldn't even read a book.
at 15:31 on November 11th, 2008
The digital computer model is probably not adequate to describe the mind. Thinking appears to be in the mental field and not directly related to individual neurons like transistors in a CPU. A code as might be found running in a digital computer may have no meaning in brain function.
at 05:12 on November 12th, 2008
Imagine my rate of perception is a 1000 times faster than yours. We're in a room together. Someone walks in and flicks the light off and then back on. For you the darkness would have lasted one second. I experienced the darkness for 1000 seconds (16 minutes). I couldn't even read a book.
at 15:31 on November 11th, 2008
at 13:19 on November 11th, 2008
really interesting post. thanks
at 15:33 on November 25th, 2008
I have just watched the 'going down the rabbit hole movie' which goes into some detail about how perception effects reality similar to the article above.
I am a big fan of the general and special theories of realtivity and I think these documents adequately handle the issue created by objects traveling the speed of light. My understanding is that objects traveling at the speed of light WILL be perceived differently from different frames of reference. However, this does not effect reality it is just the percpetion of reality.
What is explained at the beginning of this e-mail string and in the movie is that pereception dictates reality. The movie goes pretty deep into how particles behave which is accurate in how they warp and defy time and space due to their travel speed close or at the speed of light. This is in harmony with Einsteins theories. The notion that any matter can behave this way and it does not require lightspeed and it is only our own mind that seperates us from controling the universe I see as pure nonsense.
I would greatly appreciate a detailed explaination of the evidence to suppport this and proving of Einsteins theories wrong, mind control over the galaxy, etc.
My guess is that the recent buzz over this type of information is just another example of how easily perecption can be skewed and how distant perception can become from actual reality but I would love to be proven wrong.
Please do not take offence. I do have a deep appreciation of the thougths of others and their beliefs or scientific leanings. I am just especially curiuos of this one and the source of it's developement.
at 03:53 on November 27th, 2008
Hello. Thankyou for your comments. It took me two days to write the above paper. It's such an awkward idea to try and convey, but basically, the speed of light is not a constant. The speed of light is dependent upon the rate at which the brain processes the speed of light.
We can build all the machines that we want to measure time, and/or the speed of light, but we are only measuring time by the rate at which the brain is able to function. It helped me a lot to think small. Make yourself as small as an atom. Now try and imagine what happens to the distance travelled by neurons in the brain.
I also wrote another paper which might help:http://my.nowpublic.com/world/scientists-show-time-and-space-do-not-exist
I'm happy to recieve any criticism on the subject. Every theory needs to be tested. I suppose it is mind-bending, but only because our thoughts are so entrained to believe in time, and the unfallibility of the speed of light.
at 10:10 on November 27th, 2008
Thank you for the reply.
I actually understand the theory very well I am just noting that the evidence that has been used is based in the perception of the observer which puts it in the category of philosophy.
Although I find the papers interesting I would be most interested in the actual evidence.
The movie I referrenced actually presents physical evidence but once investigated you will find the movie is a hoax and was produced as such sort of like Orson Wells WaR Of the Worlds.
You seem to be very knowledgeable in the area and I would appreciate your input.
at 13:17 on November 28th, 2008
I'm aware of the film 'What the bleep do we know?' - is 'Down The Rabbit Hole' made by the same people?
You don't need a physical experiment to confirm this theory. It needs imagination - much the same way that Einstein explored models for relativity.
There is no constant speed of light. There's no such thing as time-space, so there's no longer such a thing as gravity. The Universe is vibrating energy. Matter is this energy vibrating very fast.
The act of observation creates the illusion of time.
I really don't know what else I can say. I've explored ideas on my Blog, you could try there:
http://munty13.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
at 21:15 on December 6th, 2008
I get it... Munty13, I was just thinking the same thing! You're right. Both shutter speed and rate of perception create the illusion of time by recording conditions as they transition from one state to the next. With perception we have memory, sensation and anticipation working together to form mental images which give us our experience. The speed and flow of these images are based on the theory you present with space and time being divided by our rate of perception and relative size.
I agree with you.
Does this also mean that movement itself is the result of perception?
What I mean is that, conventional wisdom states there must be an interval of time taken to move from one point in space to another. If time is a function of mind... and movement through space takes time... Then what the hell is REALLY going on? LOL! There can be no space without time. There can be no time without space. Movement takes place in space and time.
Therefore, I say that the purpose of space and time is....
wait for it....
Wait...
The purpose of space and time is MOTION or movement.
The purpose of Mind is to experience it.
Are you with me?
at 11:44 on December 14th, 2008
good to see your getting some feed back