I think I have heard that time is another dimension that effects the speed at which we experience objective time. I remember watching a documentary on 2 ways that time travel is theoretically possible and both had time as an actual force being effected by gravity or speed. That time could be physically dragged upon and slowed. In class it seemed like time is possibly not that way and could be only a subjective experience. It was interesting to talk about the subjective changing of time especially Ten who said she had experienced time out of sequence. I cannot even imagine what that would be like. How would you know what is happening? Is it confusing, or does it make sense when it is happening to you? Fascinating!
I was also thinking that time could be the pace of your existence. Maybe it is the rate at which your body systems are operating. If you could stop the ageing process, would you not be freezing time itself? Would that not be the same as travelling to the future? What's the difference between that and stepping into a machine for 5 minutes and stepping out 1000 years in the future? What if that 5 minutes felt subjectively like 1000 years? It is really the effect on your human body that has not changed.
Lots of fun stuff to think about! I change my mind, I LOVE Physics!
Ten's experiencing time out of sequence was fascinating for me too. It reminds me of a film I once saw (pie)..or maybe a few of them. I love films (sliding doors, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind) that are capable of weaving past/present and current themes. This also speaks to the parallel places to I guess.
ReplyDeleteYeah, time travel seems like it confirms objective time, sort of, because time would have to exist as a space to travel through and as a space that we could access. Oh, space and time can't be separated? It would have a material existence. And yeah, film and editing is a great tool to think about time and to play with time. The replay, the flashback, all of that. That is why it is called a time-based medium.
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