The Relativity of Simultaneity
By altering your state of motion you can change your perception of "now".
The sports car, laser experiment. (L=laser)
.............(Observer IN)
( Magazines -----L------ Newspapers )
---------(Observer OUT)
The Car accelerates and at a certain point the laser inside the care (in between the magazines and newspapers) fires both directions towards the two stacks. The Observer inside the vehicle witnesses both stacks go up in flames at the same time. Whereas the observer outside the vehicle witnesses the laser reaching the magazines first before the newspapers. Thus creating two different versions of "now".
Very interesting…
- "How can the past and the future be when the past no longer is and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity." - Augustine
- "The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them ot attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them." - C.S. Lewis' character Screwtape in "The Screwtape Letters"
-"Carpe Diem! Seize the day!"
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