It doesnt make sense to me… I know there was a past and there is a future although ‘now’ is fleeting. We measure time in days, weeks, months so how can it be an illusion? Oh and the belief that everything is happening now – what’s that about?
edit1: A lot of people are posting that time is not an illusion and where did I find that information from but there are articles where physicists state that it is. This is one:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.space.com/amp/29859-the-illusion-of-time.html
I just wanted to know if someone could explain it clearly to me and I appreciate everyone who has tried to but it seems like a bit of a tricky and complicated subject. Thanks to all who have posted a comment.
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Time is relative. Never heard about the illusion thing.
Imagine you’re on a train that’s not moving and you’re looking at the station it’s currently stationed in. The image of that station travels at the speed of light, right.
Imagine your train starts moving faster than the speed of light and you “catch up” with the image of the train station that left it when you were standing still. You would actually be in the past, since you caught up with images from the past.
If you would move at the exact speed of light, the image would be frozen, since you travel with the same image, at the same speed. So time is frozen for everyone outside of your train. You still age, you still evolve, but everything around you stands still.
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