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[quote name='numbier_wun']All you're explaining is how somebody might perceive time. None of that has to do with actually changing time itself.[/QUOTE]
OK - but it proves (or seems to prove) that our empirical notion of time is flawed. And a substantial part of what we "know" about time is what we have observed. What if our observation of time is more fundamentally flawed then we suspect? I mean, if our most basic perceptions of time are flawed, then the measurement devices built on the foundation of our perceptions are also wrong. I can create a device to recognize a certain smell, it doesn't mean that the smell exists. Maybe the combination of chemical microbes that emit the smell exist, but the smell is just a human perception. Maybe time is just a human perception, the primitive way we experience something that is actually much grander.
I know I'm playing the what-if game here - but I guess that's because of the way I feel about our conception of time - that it's ok, but to me it seems like a crude approximation. I always get the feeling that it's not quite right.
OK - but it proves (or seems to prove) that our empirical notion of time is flawed. And a substantial part of what we "know" about time is what we have observed. What if our observation of time is more fundamentally flawed then we suspect? I mean, if our most basic perceptions of time are flawed, then the measurement devices built on the foundation of our perceptions are also wrong. I can create a device to recognize a certain smell, it doesn't mean that the smell exists. Maybe the combination of chemical microbes that emit the smell exist, but the smell is just a human perception. Maybe time is just a human perception, the primitive way we experience something that is actually much grander.
I know I'm playing the what-if game here - but I guess that's because of the way I feel about our conception of time - that it's ok, but to me it seems like a crude approximation. I always get the feeling that it's not quite right.