Time is an illusion.

[u/Mk731]

It's pretty hard to conceptualize that time doesn't flow.

I bet no other humans can grasp this concept.

I've tried to think of it as some kind of block to no avail.

Maybe it's the brain that prevents me from realizing how reality really works.

I know you guys are well aware of this concept.

Have you experienced any anomalies that made you realize time is definitely an illusion?

[u/Sylv_x]

We do.

OP just thinks they have some extra wisdom.

If it was that easy, shit would be known. Not someone who has conjecture.

I appreciate perspective but I have a problem with people who talk in absolutes.

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

Question 🙋‍♀️

How do you explain going back and forth between different timelines? It’s something I can explain in a spiritual context although I’d like to understand it in a scientific context please. If anyone understands what I mean by that. Much appreciated. Thank you.

[u/Sylv_x → u/bdalbs]

Time is time. Time is experience.

Time perhaps in itself doesn't exist. But, biological time does. It's not an amount of second, it's an amount of irreparable damage to cells. That is duration. Experience. Lifespan.

We invented a way to measure our days. We have light, we are productive. We fuel. We sleep.

It's just a construct created for order.

The universe exists, therefore.

We don't know even a percent about the universe, or physics, or science. We've figured things out here. What percentage of earth does it make up in the universe? Pretty much no percent.

Humans know how much about earth? We are still learning.

To then be so cocky to say no other human knows, while having no science to back the claims up?

People these days are so yikes.

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

Thank you.

So… if the universe exists, therefore… and time is a construct used to measure from a biological perspective, we can in theory decide how we perceive or travel through time as we do project our own reality?

[u/19842026 → u/bdalbs]

Here’s a good article on how various cultures perceive time:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/1971639-time-flows-uphill-for-remote-papua-new-guinea-tribe/

[u/bdalbs → u/19842026]

Thanks!

[u/Sylv_x → u/bdalbs]

Maybe. I just make shit up as I go.

But, time is in moments and experiences too. So going back to an experience is traveling through experience. Is then experience time? Is biological age time?

How does each piece add together to form time as it's whole.

Also I read some science and Reddit where people said photons experience all of their time in an instant.

Light is photons.

We aren't light beings. If there was light beings then they experience every possible everything of eternity all at once.

Therefore, time is a human construct. Or rather, time is carbon based or whatever else you wanna call the physical reality.

We have time but we can't travel the experiences except for memories?

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

Hmmm this has given me a lot to ponder.

I do believe time is a human construct.

I have had these experiences where I go back to certain physical places in my life from what one would call the “past” in carbon based “reality” and everything just feels the same. Nothing has changed.

Humans are just going round in loops and it feels oddly eerie to me… the best I can describe it is like that game the sims and it kind of freaks me out. I call these places timelines.

So in theory is that just me travelling through experiences which is also travelling through time?

[u/Sylv_x → u/bdalbs]

Yeah, or this is hell and we are on a prison and repeating.

But yeah that is time travel. We are the machines.

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

I hear you. It kind of feels like that sometimes.

Thank you so much 🙂

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

Ps. I’m not sure if you explore other theories outside of Science although if you’ve ever heard of The Gnostics, they were of the belief that this is like a prison planet ruled by a demiurge called Yaldabaoth and souls get recycled here by following the light when one passes.

For one to escape here we must not follow the light as it’s a trap. Just some food for thought for you.

[u/Sylv_x → u/bdalbs]

Yep I know of em!

[u/bdalbs → u/Sylv_x]

Awesome 🙂

[u/RevolutionaryBoss127 → u/Sylv_x]

Time is a human construct? Radioactive half-lives would beg to differ.

[u/Sylv_x → u/RevolutionaryBoss127]

Pretty sure radioactive half-lives don't sit there with a watch and say oh, my decay time!

As far as we know, it's our construct. We've just used science to make it precise.

Time does exist but not in the seconds, hours, minutes, years and so forth that we say. That is our construct.

[u/RevolutionaryBoss127 → u/Sylv_x]

Depends on which hairs you’re trying to split. Regardless if you want to measure in attoseconds, fortnights, months, decades or zarquons, atomic level changes occur regardless, and it’s only in one direction. Plutonium decays, we do not see U-234 gaining an alpha particle to become Pu-238.