RainmanTime
Super Moderator
A recent post by Keeb333 on the subject of Einstein's Equivalency Principle, and how we perceive motion, clicked in my brain on several other topics. One topic is one I have presented here at length, namely how the two concepts of MATTER and MOTION are what define our perception of Time. The other concept is a derivative of this concept, and it is if Time and Motion are so inextricably linked (as Einstein showed), then how can we REALLY be sure that when our perceptions are telling us something is in motion, that it really IS in motion? It may not seem like a big distinction, but I think it has huge implications to (a) Exceeeding the speed of light and (b) Time travel.
I have an excellent optical illusion that my brother sent to me just today, and it speaks to this in a way that words cannot. I will try to figure out a way to share it with you folks, most likely through posting on my website. However, this capability is deferred right now as I recover from an attack on my home computer. In the interim I will describe the basis of this illusion to make my point:
It is a color graphic of several multi-colored, banded concentric circles. When you look at the whole graphic you would swear that each of the circles is slowly rotating. However, when you focus your attention on one central point of one circle, you realize that it is NOT moving. You can move to each circle and verify that NONE of them are really moving. And yet your eyes are still relaying a falsehood to your brain that they are moving.
This is another fundamental piece of evidence for my claim that "things are not as we perceive them to be" and therefore the "concrete" definitions we have developed for what constitutes Mass, Space, and Time truly are illusions of our senses.
I will find a way to share this with the group as soon as I can.
RainmanTime
I have an excellent optical illusion that my brother sent to me just today, and it speaks to this in a way that words cannot. I will try to figure out a way to share it with you folks, most likely through posting on my website. However, this capability is deferred right now as I recover from an attack on my home computer. In the interim I will describe the basis of this illusion to make my point:
It is a color graphic of several multi-colored, banded concentric circles. When you look at the whole graphic you would swear that each of the circles is slowly rotating. However, when you focus your attention on one central point of one circle, you realize that it is NOT moving. You can move to each circle and verify that NONE of them are really moving. And yet your eyes are still relaying a falsehood to your brain that they are moving.
This is another fundamental piece of evidence for my claim that "things are not as we perceive them to be" and therefore the "concrete" definitions we have developed for what constitutes Mass, Space, and Time truly are illusions of our senses.
I will find a way to share this with the group as soon as I can.
RainmanTime