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Our human IDEA OF TIME and the REALITY of MOTION*
As soon as we open our eyes, after birth, we see days and nights, which as every adult knows, are due to the spinning motion of earth.Then within months our memory develops and registers the succession in which these days and nights occur.
Now couple years later, still not knowing about earth's motion, we are taught to speak and told that that succession is time.
The word time, in effect gets engraved within our young minds while unable to imagine the real phenomenon behind it.
A real phenomenon is defined here as anything occuring outside our own human brains, such as the spin of earth.
Because the word time is solidly anchored in our minds way before we are told about earth's spin, when we become adult, when we are finally provided all the cards of the game, we are nevertheless unable to put things back in order; the artificial concept of time literally carved in our minds irremediably overshadows the reality of earth's spin on itself.
It takes some work of the mind and that involves other real electrical and chemical phenomenon within our head, rather than some time, to realize how artificial or abstract is our language with respect to reality...
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Our minds procedure
Because to start with, when child, we do not know about the reality of earth's spinning motion on itself, our imagination impressed by that (yet unknown) motion, imagines time!
Because to start with we cannot imagine reality, our imagination builds up its own interpretation of reality!
Time in our human minds and in physics
Richard Feynman, a renown physicist, said " Time is what continues when everything else stops."As an example the hands of the above clock can stop, we nevertheless think that time goes on.
Whereas the clock gives the time when it runs, why does it no longer give the time when it stops?
While time is linked to the motion of the hands when they move, time gets by magic disconnected from these hands when the clock stops; time goes on independently of that or any other motion.
In our minds time runs behind or independently of anything that occurs in the universe. Lets face it, in our minds time is not part of the physical universe!
Clearly, our mental interpretation of time is that it does not exist in the physical universe!
Yet that seems to be in contradiction with Einstein's time dilation, in which time seems to be physically dependent on speed or motion!
Such dependency has been verified experimentally. An atomic clock, which is more accurate than the clock above, placed in a flying plane runs slower than the same clock at rest on the ground.
Einstein seems to bring back time into the real world, because he mathematically links the time a clock provides to its motion or overall speed.
In actuality though Einstein only shows there is a link between the motion of the clock and the motion of the hands of the clock, rather than with time.
The bare fact is that the clock's own overall motion enters into conflict with the specific motion of the hands and that slows them down!
Einstein's time dilation merely puts in evidence the effect that motion has on motion.
And this is not a new phenomenon, think of the swirling of the water when going down the drain, which swirling is due to the spinning of earth!
That bare reality motion acting on motion abolished from this writer's mind the concept of time!
Unfortunately though, the conclusion that time does not exist cannot be reached that way through physics because in physics motion is not physical. In physics motion is as elusive as time! Rather than motion, forces are in force in physics!
Nevermind the motion force controversy, Einstein's space-time concept mandates that very contingency: time doesn't exist!
Because Einstein's space-time infers that both time and space as individual entities are doomed, how can time continue to exist and furthermore be dependent on motion (in time dilation)?
Physicists are frankly overlooking Einstein's space-time concept; the " t " symbol for time is still appearing in their equations!
This writer thinks that "we" human extracted time out of motion, made an "intellectual" entity out of it, and now "believe" (in spite of Einstein's ideas) that entity is part of the universe!
And by the way, for those who claim that science is above religion, what is time in physics if not a "belief"?
All in all do not expect physics to answer the question: what is time?
In a nutshell should time exist, we do not know what it is; physicists do not tell us what it is; and our only recourse, physicist or not, is to believe in it!In the gravimotion interpretation of Nature (introduced next) time doesn't exist, which solves that dilemma!
The gravimotion interpretation of Nature turns down-upside our conventional way of thinking!
Next is a link to a book introducing the gravimotion interpretation of Nature.In that interpretation the happening departs from the concept of time in that the happening is physical while our concept of time is not.
In the gravimotion interpretation of Nature, the happening is physical under the format (and reality) of motion!
* Note:
In bold are events occuring outside our human brains, that are events which for sure occur in reality.
In italics and beige are interpretations of events by our human brains, and as such might be artificial and might have no collateral in reality.
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