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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 2/29/2008 5:02:50 PM | | The time would vary according to an equation from special relativity for the experiment on the jet. But there is a better test, or series of tests, that are performed in particle acceleraters where the particles are moving very fast. In this case the effect is very pronounced. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 3/20/2008 12:39:21 PM | | There's a little series they ran on Discovery Channel, called the Human Body: Pushing the Limit, or something close to that.. the theory they proposed as being the explanation of the perception of time slowing down in a near death situation is: we generally see and process visual things around 30 frames per second.. when the brain suddenly realizes death is imminent and you need to get kick started RIGHT NOW, it dumps it's chemicals and hormones that start up adrenalin and all the other fun stuff, and one effect of that is your perception blasting up way past 30 frames per second. Which, of course, allows you to see and process a lot more of the ordinary stimuli that's usually filtered out by our humdrum lives. | |
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| What happens when actual time slows down?
Posted: 3/20/2008 2:27:00 PM | well, special relativity and the simultanicity concept tell us that there is really no static "present" time as it is subject to the observer.
we know that time does not simply pass by with a start or end, but it appear rather much like a river, as Einstein figured. one particular event in the universe will be percieved at different times in any quadrant of the plant, solar system, galaxy and such.
what you describe is observer effect. a series of psychological responses have had a direct effect on your perception of time. but what is time?
it is thought by many physicists that our time block is about 3 nano-seconds eternal. that gives you something to think about when you consider this is based on how fast humans lose attention to how they refocus. this happens in our brains constantly.
so could time slow down? theoretically, time is time because it is time. that means that what ever speed it is percieved at, is what speed it is travelling at. | |
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