First off you have to understand that no one knows what Time may be.
It's certainly nothing to do with clocks, atomic or of the wrist variety.
The brain has it's own internal clock that it electro-chemical in nature and consists of a small area in the brain that experiences a neurochemically regular reaction.
It ticks regularly if you will.
I'm trying to remember what the area is called. No matter.
That area can be made to speed up and slow down by various means so that the subject experiences time "passing" at different rates.
You've experienced this yourself...'time flies when you're having fun' etc...
Well those sayings are based in fact.
You can alter your subjective experience of time.
As for "objective" time.....
Well no one knows.
What actually is it that clocks are dividing up ?
They seem to be measuring something but no one knows what.
It's not like length.
You can point to an object with a real physical reality and say "that's one unit in length".
But time is abstract.
All you're doing is dividing up this something into successively smaller intervals.
In fact that's a major area of contention in quantum research : Does the notion of time have any meaning or is it merely the concept of the interval that has relevance ?
No one knows.
Yet.
So, to get back to the question.
Basically subjective time can be non-linear.
Objective time has no meaning but if you create a clock that ticks at regular intervals then you have linear time.
If you create a clock that ticks in a non-linear way then you have non-linear time.
It's a head wrecker isn't it ?
What are your thought's on time?
It's certainly nothing to do with clocks, atomic or of the wrist variety.
The brain has it's own internal clock that it electro-chemical in nature and consists of a small area in the brain that experiences a neurochemically regular reaction.
It ticks regularly if you will.
I'm trying to remember what the area is called. No matter.
That area can be made to speed up and slow down by various means so that the subject experiences time "passing" at different rates.
You've experienced this yourself...'time flies when you're having fun' etc...
Well those sayings are based in fact.
You can alter your subjective experience of time.
As for "objective" time.....
Well no one knows.
What actually is it that clocks are dividing up ?
They seem to be measuring something but no one knows what.
It's not like length.
You can point to an object with a real physical reality and say "that's one unit in length".
But time is abstract.
All you're doing is dividing up this something into successively smaller intervals.
In fact that's a major area of contention in quantum research : Does the notion of time have any meaning or is it merely the concept of the interval that has relevance ?
No one knows.
Yet.
So, to get back to the question.
Basically subjective time can be non-linear.
Objective time has no meaning but if you create a clock that ticks at regular intervals then you have linear time.
If you create a clock that ticks in a non-linear way then you have non-linear time.
It's a head wrecker isn't it ?
What are your thought's on time?
