You drop an old person and a young person off of a high, high perch, and have each count the time it took to reach the bottom. For the old person, time seemed to go faster. For the young person, slower.
And so you have it when an old person says, “Time seems to be flying by.” While the young person says, “It seems like I have been in school forever.”
What’s the moral of this story? Before you start guessing, let me give you a hint. Yes, there have been actual experiments validating the above story.
As you ponder, let me share my guess:
Time does not exist except in our minds. In other words, time does not exist as some physical property outside of ourselves.
In other words, we create time. That’s flat out weird.
So if we create time in our heads, how much more do we create?
According to famed scientist Robert Lanza, everything. For example, space is oblivious until it hits our minds and we give it a name, the rules by which it operates, and describe its relation to time.
Provocateur Lanza calls this biocentrism. His theory is, forces in space do not exist until they pass through our conscious minds and we interact with them. This puts biology ahead of physics and cosmology. There is no difference between the cosmos and our consciousness. There is not a THEM and US. THEM and US, becomes US.
That is a crazy ass idea. I believe that you and I are separate from the things we observe in space.
This idea of biocentrism bothers me, A LOT. However, I feel it must have its day in court as it pertains to my own philosophy of how the cosmos works.
I should never seal myself off from foreign ideas, no matter how bizarre I think they are. Biocentrism definitely is not my cup of tea. But, who knows how things will work out in the future.