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Originally Posted by Crono1000

At an individual level, light travels so fast that it is practically instantanious reflected off of an object into our eyes and then our brain is conveniently fast enough to process this information into the things we see.

BUT, light is practically instantanious. If you think about it, light actually has some delay. Sure, it's .000000000000000001 ^x-1 percent of a micrimillisecond, but there is some delay. What this means is, we are never actually perceiving the present time around us. We will always be living just slightly in the past. As I see the computer in front of me, I will never be able to see the computer as it is this very moment in time. I will always being seeing it as it was right before I see it.

You are perpetually living in the past. Marinate on that for a moment.

I am pretty sure I posted a thread on this before.... You also have to factor in the time it takes for our brain to process the information....

Originally Posted by maniclion

I am pretty sure I posted a thread on this before.... You also have to factor in the time it takes for our brain to process the information....

You may have. I know you said once that technically if we could travel with a telescope faster than the speed of light and then, once far enough, look back at earth, we would be able to see dinosaurs roaming or our child selves playing in the park.

I could see somehow seeing into the past, but I don't see how any working theory on time travel would involve interacting (ie travel to...) the past.

I wish I could go back in time and not read this thread.

Originally Posted by Crono1000

You may have. I know you said once that technically if we could travel with a telescope faster than the speed of light and then, once far enough, look back at earth, we would be able to see dinosaurs roaming or our child selves playing in the park.

I could see somehow seeing into the past, but I don't see how any working theory on time travel would involve interacting (ie travel to...) the past.

I remember that and talking about how we never see the moon or stars where they really are in the sky and some of the stars are galaxies that have lost and grown stars.... I was out at my bosses country house one night a while back kind of buzzed and saw the sky in 3-D so vividly it was like one of those magic picture images that look like bad wallpaper until you stare just right and a 3-D image pops right off the page....

Originally Posted by Crono1000

At an individual level, light travels so fast that it is practically instantanious reflected off of an object into our eyes and then our brain is conveniently fast enough to process this information into the things we see.

BUT, light is practically instantanious. If you think about it, light actually has some delay. Sure, it's .000000000000000001 ^x-1 percent of a micrimillisecond, but there is some delay. What this means is, we are never actually perceiving the present time around us. We will always be living just slightly in the past. As I see the computer in front of me, I will never be able to see the computer as it is this very moment in time. I will always being seeing it as it was right before I see it.

You are perpetually living in the past. Marinate on that for a moment.

Dude, I thought you stopped dropping acid a long time ago.

Originally Posted by Crono1000

At an individual level, light travels so fast that it is practically instantanious reflected off of an object into our eyes and then our brain is conveniently fast enough to process this information into the things we see.

BUT, light is practically instantanious. If you think about it, light actually has some delay. Sure, it's .000000000000000001 ^x-1 percent of a micrimillisecond, but there is some delay. What this means is, we are never actually perceiving the present time around us. We will always be living just slightly in the past. As I see the computer in front of me, I will never be able to see the computer as it is this very moment in time. I will always being seeing it as it was right before I see it.

You are perpetually living in the past. Marinate on that for a moment.

What about when your eyes are shut ? there is no light to see.

Originally Posted by coolhandjames

What about when your eyes are shut ? there is no light to see.

True, but like manic said, you still suffer some delay even in your other senses. The brain processes information even slower than light travels, so the same point could be made for all senses.

Originally Posted by Crono1000

True, but like manic said, you still suffer some delay even in your other senses. The brain processes information even slower than light travels, so the same point could be made for all senses.

Touche.

Originally Posted by maniclion

I remember that and talking about how we never see the moon or stars where they really are in the sky and some of the stars are galaxies that have lost and grown stars.... I was out at my bosses country house one night a while back kind of buzzed and saw the sky in 3-D so vividly it was like one of those magic picture images that look like bad wallpaper until you stare just right and a 3-D image pops right off the page....

I know what you mean.

I've been places where there isn't light for miles after dark.

When you look to the sky at night you would swear to god you were on a different planet.

The colors leave you in awe !

7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode | Cracked.com


"What if we told you that what you think of as "the present" is actually slightly in the past? Basically, your life isn't a live feed: It's a delayed broadcast that your brain is constantly editing and censoring for your convenience.

The delay isn't much -- what's 80 milliseconds between you and your brain? Nothing, right? Well, a group of neuroscientists disagree. They've come up with some freaky time-altering experiments to prove that this difference can change your perspective of cause and effect. For example, in one experiment the volunteers were told to press a button that would cause a light to flash, with a short delay. After 10 or so tries, the volunteers were beginning to see the flash immediately after they pressed the button -- their brains had gotten used to the delay and decided to edit it out. Yes, that's a thing your brain can do.

But that's not the freaky part. When the scientists removed the delay, the volunteers reported seeing the flash before they pressed the button. Their brains, in trying to reconstruct the events, messed up and switched the order. They were seeing the consequence first and the action second.

Not convinced? Try this: Touch your nose and your toe at the same time. Logic says that you should feel your nose first, because it's right there in your face (hopefully) and therefore the sensory signal doesn't have to travel too long before reaching the brain, whereas your toe is at the extreme opposite end. The physical distance a message has to travel on neurological pathways is much longer from toes than from nose, and yet you feel both things at the same time. According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, that's because your brain always tries to synchronize the sensory information that it gets from your body in a way that will make sense to you, but it can only do that by pushing your consciousness slightly into the past, like a radio station that's always on a five-second delay in case somebody curses on air.

The bizarre real-world implication is that the taller you are, the further back you live in the past, since it takes longer for the information to travel through your body -- and if you're a little person, you live closer to the present.

But we're only talking about our perception of time here. It's not like time itself can actually slow down or speed up in reality ... right?"



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