RE: Special Relativity. Lifetime.
December 6, 2019 at 12:35 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2019 at 12:44 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 6, 2019 at 12:04 am)Paleophyte Wrote: A quick look at the literature listed on Google Scholar suggests that Gibson was wrong. At best, you've managed to demonstrate that the human brain is pretty limited. We also don't perceive infrasound, ionizing radiation, or dark matter.
Space-time is one of the two paradigms by which we understand the universe, the other being quantum mechanics. If you want to maintain that time doesn't really exist then I suggest you take it up with the chaps over at LIGO.
Given the broadness of the literature, I doubt a quick look is possible or informative. Paul Fraisse (1984) gives a more nuanced review of the literature. He builds upon Gibson's ideas by suggesting that the perception of succession and duration of events are what give rise to the notion of time. I clicked your link to LIGO and used their search box to look for anything relating to time. I didn't come across anything pertinent, perhaps you can give me a more direct link?
Reference: Fraisse, Paul. (1984). Perception and Estimation of Time. Annual Review of Psychology, 1-36.