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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/3/2008 1:14:22 AM | | I just watched about 7 hours of YouTube video on time travel...I would suggest Googling those videos and watching those...pretty cool stuff indeed. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/3/2008 9:55:16 PM | Farmer lil,
I have felt time slow down like that. I read a study how something traumatic happens and you see it but your mind doesn't have time to verbalize it. Everything is slow motion like an acid trip. I don't know if time slows down, just your perception of it. I am sure time seemed slower for Flash Gordon than it did for the Hulk.
As far as the other senses shutting down, I think it sounds very plausible. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/7/2008 6:18:29 PM | Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book that covers this subject. The title of the book is Blink. It discusses how your "level of arousal" (heart rate, adrenaline, etc.) changes your perception of your environment.
As far as time is concerned, from what I understand (which may be completely inaccurate) we move through time, and the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. So, time does not slow down or speed up, it simply is. We, as individuals can vary the rate at which we move through time. Our perception of time is linear, but that is all it is, a perception. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/7/2008 10:13:47 PM | Smartblonde165,
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book that covers this subject. The title of the book is Blink.
Thanks for the name of the book. I agree with the rest of what you said about space and time.
Now, if I could just slow down time, I might be able to read that book. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/8/2008 6:16:49 AM | I was interested in your question for I believe time is but a perception. Man has apportioned "time" into finite units to make sense and keep a modicum of structure within society.
The six individuals involved within the accident all have different perceptions and perhaps those that were more focused and concentrated percieved the passage of time to slow and those that did not perhaps were focused elsewhere?
On many occaisions the passage of time may seem to be of a longer or shorter duration, for instance, we all say how time flies when we are having fun ,conversely pain or sorrow filled time of the same duration seems to "drag"
Does time have an intelligence factor? Surely the intelligence factor is determined soley by the intelligence of the individual experiencing that time frame?
Is time an actual human sensation? Perhaps time is like love, it cannot be seen,nor heard , but we feel it and on what level we feel is more than our own chronology but in part also to our emotional ,spiritual and educational chronology.
We have learned to measure our days to make them manageable, whilst tests have proven that we may become disorientated without a time structure we could always revert to the ways of our ancestors and know that the day starts with the rising of the sun and ends with the dark blanket of the midnight sky with only mother moon left to illuminate us.
After all my pondering my only conclusion is that I prefer my time to be pleasurable as opposed to measured or painful,poignant or perplexing ! Interesting discussion and nice to find a thought provoking forum of thought. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/8/2008 12:02:19 PM | Time is suprising maleable. Sometimes it flies by and sometimes it crawls at a snail's pace. I'm sure that extreme situations can influence this experience. What is interesting is the ability to use this maleable experience to time to our advantage.
What if a person could control (to some degree) their subjective experience of time. They could use this extra amount of attention, energy, "time" to the application of physical and mental tasks. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/9/2008 3:28:18 PM | the passing of time in the human brain happens because the brain measures the rate of synapse in the brain, from this all percetption of time is found.
when under times of extreme trauma and extreme brain activity this perception is slightly skewed, so the brain whilst still measuring time has a distorted perspective creating the perception of time distortion.
this is easily simulated with and kind of stimulant, where you feel like time has passed more so than it has. this is beacuse the brain is under high activity and it perception is messed up.
howeer time can be slowed down with extreme speeds or heights. but what your talking about it time perception. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/14/2008 1:14:55 AM | There has been a lot of great discussion here, but unless I have overlooked a post, nobody has asked or answered the question as to what time is.
Time goes on no matter what. From the moment we are born the aging process begins, we grow old and we die. In this regard "time waits for nobody". It was stated in an earlier post that "time is a perception", it may be, but I submit that it is not our perception of time, rather times perception of us.
I have only enough knowledge of this to get me in trouble, so please bare with me and/or correct me if I am wrong. Breaking down our general concept time, it was/is astrologically based.
It takes x for the earth to orbit around the sun. It takes y for the moon to orbit the earth and it takes z for the earth to rotate on it's own axis.
We call x a year and as far as our concept of time is concerned it is the most significant. Plants and animals see a period of life, growth, death (hibernation) and renewal. The seasons change. Y, what we call a month becomes less significant and although earthly changes are evident, it serves as well to break down the year. Z, which of course we call a day, signifies the period it takes for the sun to enter, leave and re-enter our view.
All other periods of time are completely random and could have been broken down any which way. There is no reason that there couldn't be 120 seconds in a minute, 120 minutes in an hour and 120 hours in a day. There is also no reason that a day could not have been signified by two, three, four etc.. cycles of the sun. We could have one week in a month or twelve.
For the most part our concept of time was created by man, but it still doesn't change the fact that we are born, we age and we die. Time slowing down or speeding up for one individual due to an isolated event does not change how much that person has aged. I know that experiments have been done using jets and the earth's rotation and space. But it still doesn't change our biology. If you can send a man into space for 50 years and he comes back relatively unchanged, that might be different. But I don't think that will happen anytime soon. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/14/2008 10:18:28 AM | This has happened to me a few times in unexpected, near lethal situations.
I don't think anything happens to time. I think your mind races and works at an
accelerated rate due to the the minds bio-chemistry. Whenever it happened to me
the things that flashed in my mind were people I loved or had loved. I think the mind
knows its about to die and quickly brings up the memories of the things that really matter,
moments of happiness, joy, affection. Just an opinion... | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/15/2008 2:01:30 PM | I believe time is but a precept. If one is able to more rapidly understand the "reality"(and i use qoutes because who KNOW's what that is) of a situation then I believe it would appear as if time was "slowing" down.
just my 2 cents. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 1/15/2008 3:40:37 PM | What you experienced was a personal perception.
The only way to speed up or slow down the actual passage of time is to be nearer or further from a source of gravity.
The further a satellite is from Earth, the faster its internal clock has to run in order to keep it in synchronicity with clocks on Earth.
The larger/closer the gravity source, the faster the passage of time. The smaller/further.....the slower the passage. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/10/2008 11:26:13 AM | | ^^^^ I disagree. i feel it is also poss. to slow down time by being able to process information at a faster rate thereby allowing one to "seemingly" move faster. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/10/2008 4:29:06 PM | There have been some great posts about personal experiences and also about the whys.
The question came to me after reading the posts on this last page....why the brain would choose 'slow-motion' in one situation and regular time mode in another. Now I can see the possible differences with some extreme situations like shootings and such where the stress is high and has been actually built upon from seconds to minutes. But for other incidents where stress is not the obvious factor affecting the brain like in a sudden car accident I wonder what factors in those 'non-stress' related type incidents cause the brain to act or not act in 'slow-motion' for that individual.
Any ideas? | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/11/2008 8:05:04 AM | | Thats a good question. Maybe instinctual? Hopefully though; the ability stems from a "Nurture" enviroment(sp?). This would, I believe, allow for some "room to grow". Poss. cultivate a faster "processing" speed so as to apply it at will. There is a book I am waiting for by Henri Bergson called Blink that allegedly discusses these and other variating poss.'s. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/12/2008 10:14:32 AM | I'm not so sure that time would slow down as much as your thinking would speed up.
If you need to process alot of information but don't have the time to do it, your brain creates the time by speeding up... That's how come time is considered relative.
Einstein summed it up pretty well by saying;
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/17/2008 9:08:13 PM | Sometimes I think my thinking goes to far...
Consider this.....something happens and our earth and surrounding heavens come to be. Is that a time element? If our intelligence is the source of time and not anything outside of it....time could be said to be a mass halucination of sorts. Time usually becomes a factor for more than one person. Between two or more people you "keep time" of things. It seems to be a natural part of ourselves. But if you isolate a single individual on a piece of land that has all they need to exist, time can actually cease to be as it once was. People isolated, at sea, on an island, in a cave, don't usually describe events by time. Things for them just happen and they have memories.
So the above (if really true) would prove that time is a learned experience. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/18/2008 9:04:57 PM | Frog got this one right, it's all due to processing of sensual data in the brain, much the same effect as running a new game on an old computer, it slows down because the data flow is exceeding the bandwidth of the computer.
I play some high paced online games that triggers this mechanism in me fairly often. In the game I'm referring to it's basically glorified cops n robbers, there'll be instances where time appears to move normally within say 3 seconds where I shoot or get shot, but in other instances where I'm overrun and begin to panic a little, the same amount of time I'll feel like I'm actually taking the time to carefully aim, but in actuality I shut off some sense to improve the hand-eye response times. I've actually trained myself to do this by saying "there's plenty of time, just focus on one object at a time". Comes in handy in more than just gaming. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/28/2008 9:45:40 AM | henry berguson states that time is measured in units that do not really reflect time at all. I concur with this. Time is a concept. the gregorian calender was in fact instilled for industrial /agricultural purpose. Bottom line if the time is good for buisness then its good for the people. In all actuality time increments should,at least on a yearly scale, be modeled after the lunar calender leaving 13 months instead of 12. I can only assume that time stretches and contracts with global consciousness/acceptance. real time that is.
the time is now 11:47am. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/28/2008 10:56:29 AM | Well, in response to the thread, there is an advantage to faster processing at limited times. Look at the savannah. If faster processing for a split-second can help a prehistoric hunter avoid a predator long enough to survive... it would be an advantage. He would live on to pass that aspect on. I bet that most predator species that can in turn be hunted or hurt by their prey have this mutation, I suppose it could be called.
Now, onto perspective of time: Einstein stated it so very eloquently:
"Imagine it like this. 2 hours with a beautiful woman would feel as 2 minutes had passed, whereas 2 minutes with your hand to an oven would feel as 2 hours have passed. Your perspective changed, and so your perception of time passing changed." I may have mutilated the quote as it was from memory. XD | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/29/2008 4:15:28 PM | I've had experiences when time felt like it almost stopped. But I know it was only my perception of it, just as it will surely keep passing once I'm no longer around to sense whatever we think time is.
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