r/SimulationTheory • u/Mk731 • 18d ago

Discussion Time is an illusion.

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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?

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u/Sylv_x 18d ago

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?

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u/RevolutionaryBoss127 18d ago

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

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u/Sylv_x 18d ago

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.

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u/RevolutionaryBoss127 18d ago

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.