There is a little bit of physics here and I will state the generally agreed facts first and then move in to the hypothesis with a relatively clear delineation.
Einstein once said that time is an illusion, albeit a persistent one. In fact, his statement applies not only to time but also to 'space' aka distance measuring. But to keep it simple, I shall limit the physics to time. Adding the other will only complicate things for no additional benefit. Just note however that this is the reason we use the term 'space time' because in hard reality, they are not seperate entities.
1. A photon traveling from a distant star millions of light years away will take millions of years to arrive at us, a lonely photon destined to collide with the mirror of Hubble. For all that distance, we imagine a particle wave traversing vast regions of space and await the inevitable passage of time.
However, if looked at from the photons perspective, that is simply not so. Due to time dilation and length contraction described by special relativity, the photon sees ZERO time passing. Not very small, infinitesimal or any other description of time, but ZERO. No time has passed from the moment it was emmited until the moment it ceased to exist upon collision. In other words, from the photons perspective IT NEVER EXISTED AT ALL. Allow that to sink in for a moment. That particle that you see existing on a long journey for millions of years has never existed at all. Quite the paradox.
2. Time is a measurement of collisions we deem 'regular'. Imagine only two electrons existing in the entire universe. Until they collide, nothing happens at all, (for this gedanken experiment, ignore virtual particles and vacuum energy) no matter their 'movement'. Not only are we unable to measure time until a collision occurs, but our understanding is that no time occurs until an event happens. That event is collision, destruction, conflict etc. One thing must interfere with another for time to occur.
3. Quantum superposition is part of quantum mechanics with most 'interpretations' (a crude word describing our lack of actual knowledge of whats going on) with the exception of Bohmian mechanics (Pilot wave theory) which I will ignore during this discussion as it is a separate discussion entirely. Quantum superposition states that a position of any quantum particle in superposition cannot be known until measurement, that it exists in a non existence of possibilities until then. In the Copenhagen interpretation, this moment is know as 'collapse'.
Decoherance is a supposed state that most physicists agree upon wherein a quantum state loses its 'quantum stateness' due to interfering with too many other things aka being too big etc. The limits of this however are not known and in fact are continually being challenged. So far, we can 'quantumize' photons, electrons, small atoms, massive atoms and even molecules such as C60 (Buckyball) as performed just before the end of the 20th century. NASA has also managed to hold rubidium atoms in quantum entangled states for a long time over distances of about 500mm. This all tends to imply that decoherance does not limit it to the very small.
Hypothesis time:
Quantum decoherance does not exist, but is simply the technical limitations of our experiments. Time only exists when a conflict of some kind occurs and is therefore collapsed from its quantum state. You are in quantum superposition at all times until collapsed (observed) due to a collision. Although this is somewhat of a misnomer since you are always in superposition, the natural state until your time of now is created by a momentary collapse.
We do not exist in a stream of time, but in a series of now moments that create the physical 'firmness' that we see and measure as time and space. Also, due to quantum superposition, retro causality is in effect, meaning that the now positions are not determined until the collapse and thus all past paths and times change to the current now. In each moment, we create ourself and our past. For each collision an new path and past emerges, usually slight, but sometimes a big change. This explains some of the memory facts that science has a great issue with and also neatly explains the 'mandella effect' for those of you that have experienced it. (I have)
This is also the reason why peace cannot occur. From small to large, collisions must occur for reality to exist. Collisions, conflict, interference must all occur for us to solidify this physical reality to a series of events that we call time.
Following the Copenhagen interpretation, the we is conscious, but not 'us'. It sits behind 'us' and is with 'us' but is observing and thus creating 'us' and our lives along the way. I do not have an hypothesis as to what this observer is except that it is mostly observing and has little influence on us. The exceptions we see as magic or miracles and I do not know how or why these moments are chosen to be 'changed' from the probable to the 'impossible' but happens too often to be dismissed even from a probabalistic determination. Many wave off these things as coincedence too easily. These same naysayers would scream foul should 10,000 people win a powerball draw even though this is far more likely that many 'coincident' events.
Einstein once said that time is an illusion, albeit a persistent one. In fact, his statement applies not only to time but also to 'space' aka distance measuring. But to keep it simple, I shall limit the physics to time. Adding the other will only complicate things for no additional benefit. Just note however that this is the reason we use the term 'space time' because in hard reality, they are not seperate entities.
1. A photon traveling from a distant star millions of light years away will take millions of years to arrive at us, a lonely photon destined to collide with the mirror of Hubble. For all that distance, we imagine a particle wave traversing vast regions of space and await the inevitable passage of time.
However, if looked at from the photons perspective, that is simply not so. Due to time dilation and length contraction described by special relativity, the photon sees ZERO time passing. Not very small, infinitesimal or any other description of time, but ZERO. No time has passed from the moment it was emmited until the moment it ceased to exist upon collision. In other words, from the photons perspective IT NEVER EXISTED AT ALL. Allow that to sink in for a moment. That particle that you see existing on a long journey for millions of years has never existed at all. Quite the paradox.
2. Time is a measurement of collisions we deem 'regular'. Imagine only two electrons existing in the entire universe. Until they collide, nothing happens at all, (for this gedanken experiment, ignore virtual particles and vacuum energy) no matter their 'movement'. Not only are we unable to measure time until a collision occurs, but our understanding is that no time occurs until an event happens. That event is collision, destruction, conflict etc. One thing must interfere with another for time to occur.
3. Quantum superposition is part of quantum mechanics with most 'interpretations' (a crude word describing our lack of actual knowledge of whats going on) with the exception of Bohmian mechanics (Pilot wave theory) which I will ignore during this discussion as it is a separate discussion entirely. Quantum superposition states that a position of any quantum particle in superposition cannot be known until measurement, that it exists in a non existence of possibilities until then. In the Copenhagen interpretation, this moment is know as 'collapse'.
Decoherance is a supposed state that most physicists agree upon wherein a quantum state loses its 'quantum stateness' due to interfering with too many other things aka being too big etc. The limits of this however are not known and in fact are continually being challenged. So far, we can 'quantumize' photons, electrons, small atoms, massive atoms and even molecules such as C60 (Buckyball) as performed just before the end of the 20th century. NASA has also managed to hold rubidium atoms in quantum entangled states for a long time over distances of about 500mm. This all tends to imply that decoherance does not limit it to the very small.
Hypothesis time:
Quantum decoherance does not exist, but is simply the technical limitations of our experiments. Time only exists when a conflict of some kind occurs and is therefore collapsed from its quantum state. You are in quantum superposition at all times until collapsed (observed) due to a collision. Although this is somewhat of a misnomer since you are always in superposition, the natural state until your time of now is created by a momentary collapse.
We do not exist in a stream of time, but in a series of now moments that create the physical 'firmness' that we see and measure as time and space. Also, due to quantum superposition, retro causality is in effect, meaning that the now positions are not determined until the collapse and thus all past paths and times change to the current now. In each moment, we create ourself and our past. For each collision an new path and past emerges, usually slight, but sometimes a big change. This explains some of the memory facts that science has a great issue with and also neatly explains the 'mandella effect' for those of you that have experienced it. (I have)
This is also the reason why peace cannot occur. From small to large, collisions must occur for reality to exist. Collisions, conflict, interference must all occur for us to solidify this physical reality to a series of events that we call time.
Following the Copenhagen interpretation, the we is conscious, but not 'us'. It sits behind 'us' and is with 'us' but is observing and thus creating 'us' and our lives along the way. I do not have an hypothesis as to what this observer is except that it is mostly observing and has little influence on us. The exceptions we see as magic or miracles and I do not know how or why these moments are chosen to be 'changed' from the probable to the 'impossible' but happens too often to be dismissed even from a probabalistic determination. Many wave off these things as coincedence too easily. These same naysayers would scream foul should 10,000 people win a powerball draw even though this is far more likely that many 'coincident' events.
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