(December 5, 2019 at 11:06 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(December 5, 2019 at 9:47 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: A century later and they haven't proven Einstein wrong yet. Time isn't an abstraction. It's where you live.
There's no need to prove Einstein wrong; if his theory makes use of the notion of time, and it can successfully make predictions with it, then the model is useful. However, Einstein's ideas predate the cognitive revolution in psychology and any imaging technology implemented by cognitive neuroscience. I'm not necessarily an expert on the psychological literature of time, but we can at least begin by understanding that we don't have a perception of time, only a perception of motion, change, events, and other movements (Gibson, 1975).
References: Gibson, J. J. (1975). Events are perceivable but time is not. In J. T. Fraser, & N. Lawrence, The study of time II (pp. 295-301). New York: Springer-Verlag.
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.
