perception of time
I used to think that if there's a remote control for my life, I'd put it in fast forward mode, so that I can quickly go through everything life has to offer and be done with it. This idea, although still instereting, seem less relevant to me nowadays.
Somehow my perception of time have changed.
To me, the past few years seem like one single continuous day, and everything that happened feels like it was yesterday.
I feel like time has come to a stand still, so that in one eternal moment, I observed the occurance of countless events, saw myself change from one state into another, and witnessed sunrise and sunset over and over.
Maybe time really doesn't exist.
A brief internet search on related topics brought me some interesting finds:
A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy Of Godel And Einstein
"in 1949 Godel made a remarkable discovery: there exist possible worlds described by the theory of relativity in which time, as we ordinarily understand it, does not exist. He added a philosophical argument that demonstrates, by Godel's lights, that as a consequence, time does not exist in our world either. If Godel is right, Einstein has not just explained time; he has explained it away."
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/denying_time.shtml
"Perhaps humans invented the concept of time out of mortal fear; reasoning that if time were tangible then its degenerative march could be controlled, just as mankind has tried to subdue other aspects of the natural world. Immortality would be within our grasp! But while time may be a convenient metronome that delivers neatly portioned slivers of existence to conscious beings, the idea of a ‘universal time’ is looking increasingly fanciful, at least to some physicists."
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