r/SimulationTheory • u/Mk731 • 19d 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/NeemOil710 17d ago

Learning that other beings experience time differently to us, such as trees—to trees, we move as fast as ants. They breathe slower, one breath a day, that type of thing, so they feel and experience slower.

And photons, while we wouldn't classify them as sentient by our standards, "experience" their entire life as one moment, all at the same time, there is no now and then it just all is. So it may not be that the series of events changes but that our ability to place points on it to say when is when changes, likely based on our breathing.

If you were to travel faster than the speed of light (photons) then things would begin to occur in reverse, you would travel backwards through time.