quote:Originally posted by bob:
Having done some thinking, I suppose what I'm after more accurately, has to do with the notion of subjectively experienced time vs. arbitrary objective measurements.
If my sense of time can be slowed or sped up at will, and often is, why does there happen beginnings and endings that seem to recur at more or less regular intervals measured in basically meaningless units of days, weeks, and months?
Or, shouldn't I be able to affect these cycles I can see externally, by altering my internal perception of time? or do the two ways of conceiving time have absolutely nothing to do with each other?
Or, perhaps I'm trying to express something that's way over my head. Excuse me, if that's the case. 
You ought to be able to make the days seem longer to you, and perhaps make the days seem longer to another person. You should even be able to make an atom vibrate at a different rate so that an atomic clock would measure too few seconds in a day. However, this does nothing to alter the "objective" model of the scientist, in which a second is a second independent of how you feel about that.
The problem with introducing so-called non-linear models of time is that they must all be essentially the same. Time, as far as anyone can tell, is one-dimensional. You can twist it around into a ball of string, stretch it out, make it spiral up, or whatever you like, but these are all the same thing. Because they're all the same piece of string. Two directions, forward and backward. And there is some reason to say that backward time-travel occurs. Anti-particles are mathmatically equivalent to their respective particles moving backwards through time. |
