I'm saying perception of time is actually energy. The rate of nuclear decay, is again, another amount of energy which an object has to decay, and acceleration, just the same, is levels of energy. You need to step outside your normal way of thinking about speed and life to imagine what I am saying. I'm not confusing anything, it's very clear.
A lot of you have responded in a similar fasion as I have about what time actually is.
I've studied quantum physics, cosmology, and spacetime theories for years now, and I given a lot of thought to what the right answer is to time.
I really believe that there is no such thing as time. It is a perception of energy. I believe that in the universe, the different levels of energy that are among us (the energy of a car, the energy in our brains processing information) is what gives us the perception of a "time flow".
I believe that we see things the way we do because our brains, which is you (no soul, nothing metaphyiscal), have a certain level of running energy that stays relatively consistent. Ever since we are born, we view different levels of energy (different things happening in our world) which we get used to the rate of (we adapt to our surrounding levels of energy) giving us a normal perception of the world. We adapt to this primally, and see it as a flow. We imagine this river of time that doesn't exist, and is only bounded by our certain amount of matter and energy, which happens to be our whole being (our brains).
Now I have stayed up all night, so excuse any redundancy, or poor explaination.
I believe that in reality, if you were to say time exists, this second right now is just as real as the second 100,000,000,000 years from now.
This concept may be more helpful:
Say you have a computer program that bounces a ball around the screen. When you run that program, it takes "time" for it to bounce in all possible ways, until the "time" comes when the program is ended. I don't see reality as a ball bouncing, taking time to bounce from one place to another. I see reality as actually just the code, and the equations which give the ball those directions, and those values of how much energy to have in going in a direction. But, as we obey the laws of energy in this universe, our rate of energy judges things we see (in comparasin with what energy levels we see normally) as relative to other levels of energy, as they are either "quicker", or "slower".
I'm too tired to explain other factors that go into it but I hope I got the idea across.
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I'm saying perception of time is actually energy. The rate of nuclear decay, is again, another amount of energy which an object has to decay, and acceleration, just the same, is levels of energy. You need to step outside your normal way of thinking about speed and life to imagine what I am saying. I'm not confusing anything, it's very clear.
A lot of you have responded in a similar fasion as I have about what time actually is. I've studied quantum physics, cosmology, and spacetime theories for years now, and I given a lot of thought to what the right answer is to time. I really believe that there is no such thing as time. It is a perception of energy. I believe that in the universe, the different levels of energy that are among us (the energy of a car, the energy in our brains processing information) is what gives us the perception of a "time flow". I believe that we see things the way we do because our brains, which is you (no soul, nothing metaphyiscal), have a certain level of running energy that stays relatively consistent. Ever since we are born, we view different levels of energy (different things happening in our world) which we get used to the rate of (we adapt to our surrounding levels of energy) giving us a normal perception of the world. We adapt to this primally, and see it as a flow. We imagine this river of time that doesn't exist, and is only bounded by our certain amount of matter and energy, which happens to be our whole being (our brains). Now I have stayed up all night, so excuse any redundancy, or poor explaination. I believe that in reality, if you were to say time exists, this second right now is just as real as the second 100,000,000,000 years from now. This concept may be more helpful: Say you have a computer program that bounces a ball around the screen. When you run that program, it takes "time" for it to bounce in all possible ways, until the "time" comes when the program is ended. I don't see reality as a ball bouncing, taking time to bounce from one place to another. I see reality as actually just the code, and the equations which give the ball those directions, and those values of how much energy to have in going in a direction. But, as we obey the laws of energy in this universe, our rate of energy judges things we see (in comparasin with what energy levels we see normally) as relative to other levels of energy, as they are either "quicker", or "slower". I'm too tired to explain other factors that go into it but I hope I got the idea across.