Time is relative because depending on our speed we can slow or speed it up.
No we can't. The slowing down of time on a spaceship moving at close to the speed of light is a matter of
perspective, and depends on relative motion. And furthermore, it is
reciprocal. After all, from the perspective of the crew of the moving spaceship, it is
the Earth which is moving away from
them at close to the speed of light, and they would measure the rate of the passage of time
on Earth to be slowed relative to the rate of passage of time on their spaceship. Remember what Father Ted said about the cows not
actually being smaller, but just far away? Well, the same logic applies to time dilation in relativity theory. It is reciprocal, and is merely an artefact of
perspective. In no real sense has the passage of time
actually slowed down anywhere at all. The cow isn't actually small, it's just far away. Lol.
How we experience time is another matter. I am spending quite a bit of time on the mathematics on hubbles constant and Einstein's relativity theories at the moment and the irony is perception mathematics is key to my thinking about time too. So sure, use that to emphasis your point, because I think perception is key to figuring out time actually.
Scientifically speaking, no it isn't. In science, time only has meaning in relation to
measurement, not some nebulous notion of "perception". Henri Bergson dealt with our perception of time, but he was a philosopher and not a scientist. Einstein's theory of relativity deals with how we
measure time, not how we
perceive it. The distinction is a subtle but important one.
Perhaps you should visit my other two threads on the 'speed of light' and 'our mind being a matrix' and make your opinions known there. I can only be constructive in my thinking if I have someone make genuine comments that I haven't thought of to make my thinking more absolute. I genuinely believe (but this is only my opinion), time, or to put it another way, how our minds perceive time, is all due to our minds registering light and putting it into something we understand and can create a reality from.
What do you mean by the word "perceive"? Einstein's famous "thought-experiments" concerning relativity theory involve imagining beams of light, mirrors and clocks in order to
measure the passage of time. "Perception" is far too vague and nebulous a concept on which to base a coherent scientific thought-experiment.
As for time itself, I think it works very similar to a balloon. Old time (the observable beginnings of our universe) is at the edge of the universe and the speed of light is faster than how we consider it to be there (in my opinion and not scientific opinion), and new time is at the centre of the universe and is expanding very slow (and the speed of light is slower there too) so we are unable to observe our future due to this. And my thinking is it's similar to a balloon because when you tie a balloon up, the closer to the knot, the less the plastic has expanded.
A moving object changes its spatial location
and its temporal location. This is how we know that it is moving. Speed is, after all, distance travelled
per unit time. It is moving through space
and time. Both movements are necessary in order for it to be possible for us to speak of the object "moving" at all. So I'm not sure what your idea adds to our understanding of the concept of movement, if anything.
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