How does the illusion of time come about

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 685 views

I think a good answer explaining the illusion of time would be to imagine a river or better a shower. We can use the word flow for both of them as well as for the passage of time. We see in the case of the shower a large number of ...

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Relative simultaneity and speeds greater than speed of light

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 380 views

Reading the very entertaining book "In Search of Time" by Dan Falk, I felt the need to write down two notes. Maybe to return later on them. First one on simultaneity, looking at the explanation on why simultaneity is relative, as explained on page 165/Albert's Time, if the 2 observer won't ...

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On bats and humans

Saturday, January 17th, 2009 329 views

Aren't we some big bats using light instead of sound to see our environment? Then, if bats' brain is wired to compute the picture of the scene based on the echo of the sound isn't our brain wired to do the same thing using the light reflected by the object ...

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