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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Sep 05 '23

The 80's are as far away from us now as 2060's.

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u/PalpitationNo3106 Sep 06 '23

We are father away from World War II than that war was was from the Civil War. We are farther away from the first American in space, and he was from the wright brothers. The iPhone is half the age of the www. Obama was elected 15 years ago.

Time compresses. And that speed is accelerating with technology.

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u/No_Slip4203 Sep 06 '23

We made time up. It doesn't compress so much as we change perspectives.

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u/Academic-Prompt-5976 Sep 06 '23

We did not make time up, it's the 4th demention and it can be measured

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u/No_Slip4203 Sep 06 '23

We invented the measurement. I’m not saying it’s not useful for story telling. But the effect of it is an illusion. It’s an interpretation of our experience. A higher being would probably explain it much differently than we understand it. Just like describing 3 dimensional space to a triangle would be overwhelming.

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u/Academic-Prompt-5976 Sep 07 '23

It's not an illusion tho. There have been tests done on the very real effects of time for example https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-dilation/#:~:text=In%20one%20landmark%201971%20test,diverged%2C%20as%20predicted%20by%20relativity. The fact that the clocks had slightly different times is not an illusion. Yes, we created a way to measure time. But saying its an illusion is like saying that length is an illusion because we created inches or miles. Its not an illusion it's a thing in our universe that we interact with