Is time speeding up?

[mike]

thats probibly right, i remember that it was that time dilation occured, that stuck in my mind, that would fit the satelitte story as well.


ah yes it all comes back to me the idea was that the physical "chunk" of the universe we are sitting on is travelling at a certain "speed" away from the big bang, and that being an explosion the speed of the matter traveling out from the "bang" might not be a constant, but rather a collection of "velocity envelopes" with differing speeds and the subsequent effect on time within each envelope.

 

[Ally]

Have any of you on this forum had the perception of time stopping, slowing down or speeding up in relationship to "normal" 3D reality?

 

[0uterj0in]

I find it extremely difficult to think about time in purely relative terms. My mind always has a fixed frame of reference to which everything else is "fast" or "slow". I can't turn it off.

Maybe our quests into the paranormal are doomed to bump up against the limits of the "application architecture" of our own neurology.

 

[Ally]

Is that a yes to the percption of time going both fowards backards and stopped?

What type of brain chemestry/structures involved with these types of experiences is an important aspect to look at but I was just wondering if "normal" people have these types of experiences and/or pecptions often.

For example: seeing people other than yourself stopped for a few seconds seconds?

 

[Goody]

Time is simply the measurement of how much change you can pack into any given moment.

So I would say that 'time' is accelerating.

I am here, and the time is now; time is conceptual, a figment of the imagination that allows us to work the chaos of the world into some sort of format that we can review.

Goody.

 

[schticknz]

Time is simply the measurement of how much change you can pack into any given moment.

So I would say that 'time' is accelerating.

I am here, and the time is now; time is conceptual, a figment of the imagination that allows us to work the chaos of the world into some sort of format that we can review.

Goody.

To be horribly pedantic ... how can something "conceptual", and that is a figment of ones imagination i.e. not specifically real be ... accelerating?? Maybe I've missed something here somewhere

Anyway, I read recently in the New Scientist magazine that some pretty darn clever scientists are working on a quantum theory of the universe with no time factor involved.

Yep for all those who studied Quantum Physics ... no 't's ... and I guess by extrapolation ... no 'dx/dt's or things like that

 

[Goody]

Time is simply the measurement of how much change you can pack into any given moment.

So I would say that 'time' is accelerating.

I am here, and the time is now; time is conceptual, a figment of the imagination that allows us to work the chaos of the world into some sort of format that we can review.

Goody.

To be horribly pedantic ... how can something "conceptual", and that is a figment of ones imagination i.e. not specifically real be ... accelerating?? Maybe I've missed something here somewhere

Anyway, I read recently in the New Scientist magazine that some pretty darn clever scientists are working on a quantum theory of the universe with no time factor involved.

Yep for all those who studied Quantum Physics ... no 't's ... and I guess by extrapolation ... no 'dx/dt's or things like that

Albeit somewhat poorly written, you have latched onto the notion of 'time' as being not only purely subjective, but conceptual. I appreciate you pulling me up on my post. Now, the idea deserves more words than I delivered, so i'll push forward.

Time is something quite odd indeed, some mysterious 'truth' we've brought into play to keep change & movement in some kind of 'location' where we can work with it; time as paradoxical as it appears to the mind, has society under the impression that it is somewhat tangible a very natural order of the universe.

Time is out of control, out of our control & honestly has us completely 'fucked'. It's an ideal, an idea, a concept; concepts change, concepts evolve, ideas differ & ideals can be built upon. Change. Everything is undergoing change. Your mind, your ideas, it all changes. And if you don't change your mind, you'll be lead towards physical change in some respect.

If time (a human concept) is somehow the measurement of change, than how can you not say that our own apparatus of measure has not changed? Or, as is postulated, time indeed dilates & contracts; in some sense, but it's merely relative...wouldn't you agree? OR, time is some horrible abstraction that we set in place to get our minds around the nature of our limited understanding of 'what is'. So 'time' may be actual in a sense, yet our idea of it is too skewed to be in the rythym of the 'beat', so the 'now' seems like the better place to be.

Time must change as the actuality of it's own content does infact, shift. You couldn't have it any other way. So infact, yes it is plausible that time is accelerating; it's just your clock isn't running any faster.

I'm a 'Mckenna-ist', so my idea of time as a fractal-pulse of reality, forever keeping portions of its own initiative 'image', is too obvious as i've experienced synchronicity, the bizarre repititious universe & other multiple facets of it's nature; it's too 'real' to me, and there you have it, another idea that can be built upon like a schematic.

Please feel free (not obligated) to work through this discussion of time acceleration with loads of imagination; as I feel that is one way out of the box of understanding.

Goody.

Goody.

 

[schticknz]

Goody

Time, the measurement, I guess in one way is a measure of the rate of decay of things. Entropy (although it has been shown to be reversible under certain conditions) has, usually, a one way flow to our poor befuddled eyes ... and Man came up with the concept of time, I think, to help him fix this rate of decay (which also includes the growth of things from birth to death) in his mind like other measurements such as "inches", "pounds", "kilogrammes" etc.

But time is something else entirely as well ... and thats where the problems come in ... I think this may be the conceptual thing you may be talking about

I'm not entirely sure I can even begin to broach this subject and still make any sense whatsoever ... not that I make much sense to begin with, of course . I'll have a think about it (bugger, been doing that for 25 years at least) and get back to you on that one ... cop out no 563

ps. I'm a McKenna fan too ... still vastly underrated in my mind, and streets ahead of similar thinkers like Leary and Anton Wilson ... in my not so humble opinion