Time, time, time is not on our side, no it isn't

[meeno8]

With our current insights into the neural pathways, the signals from our five sensory organs take x amount of time to reach our brains, which means perception is hardly instantaneous.  On a grander scale, we see stars in the night sky, but many of them are thousands or tens of thousands of light years away.  There is no way we can know what the constellations may look like when the light from them reaches us in the far distant future, at least not without astronomers calculating that based on the direction of their current trajectory.  However, that does not preclude their going super nova some time in the distant past, and then we see that light within the next five or ten years from now.

There could be a solar flare on our sun so huge that it takes out all our power grids to the extent it could take days, weeks or even months to restore service to most areas.  Given that it takes several minutes for light to reach us from the sun, astronomers that monitor solar flares would not even be aware this instant.   Plus, what I am posting right now may not be readable by you while the power grid is down, because even if you access this site from your mobile device, it still relies upon servers that need power from the grid.

Heck, we could even be dead and not even know it, because the situation has not been recognized by our brain yet, such as a plane just crashed into our house and crushed us instantaneously.

Discuss among yourselves...

Now if I can just hit the Create Thread button before any such calamity....

[avadhutadas]

What is time?

I'm still holding out hope for a magnetic pole reversal that sends 10,000 foot tidal waves across the earth.

"I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my friend."

[meeno8]

Time has been considered to be a 4th dimension. I do not think there is any way for us to perceive the passage of time without some motion of a body or bodies through 3 dimensions. Other than that, just hearing one's own heart beat, which is actually the movement of blood through the circulatory system as the heart pumps it like a beating drum.

The nature of time has been a problem for philosophers to tackle throughout the centuries, and Einstein added unprecedented insights into it with his theory on relativity with time slowing down, and not just the perception of it, as an object approaches the speed of light.  Experiments have proven that theory to be true.