How do we know if our perception of time is accurate?

Question

How do we know we're not really travelling backwards through time, and that we lack the capacity for memory but are able to see the future?

Answer 1

Happy Hiram,  you may want to re think that explanation. If the volume of a proton--eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron--should be magnified to the size of the head of a pin, then, in comparison, a pin's head would attain a diameter equal to that of the earth's orbit around the sun.

Time is the stream of flowing temporal events perceived by creature consciousness. Time is a name given to the succession-arrangement whereby events are recognized and segregated. The universe of space is a time-related phenomenon as it is viewed from any interior position outside of the fixed abode of Paradise. The motion of time is only revealed in relation to something which does not move in space as a time phenomenon. In the universe of universes Paradise and its Deities transcend both time and space. On the inhabited worlds, human personality (indwelt and oriented by the Paradise Father's spirit) is the only physically related reality which can transcend the material sequence of temporal events.

Answer 2

Time is not a perception, it's a known progression. Our knowledge of time is based on the revolution of the Earth on its axis and revolution around the sun, plus the phases of our Moon. If we were traveling backwards through time, the Universe would be shrinking rather than expanding.

Answer 3

first let me appreciate u for your way of thinking differently.there is no wonder  if u become a scientist on some day.i wish it.

as far as 'time' is concerned..time ,distance,space etc,,all are vector variables and abstract ones.all these terms are man made for there daily needs & identification purposes.time is not divisable.still we do it days,hours etc..for our sake.when think of million/trillion years (maha yuga like kali,dwapara etc..) with this seconds &minutes what is time.same is true with the distances of stars to a distance of a village to its nearest town.time only rolls in our view.here there  is no forward or back ward.what is over or already enjoyed etc,,is taken as past and that yet to see or enjoy is called future..all are `relative..u r question needs at least a big note book for answering..hats of to u for your wisdom..i think most of the planets in u r h'scope are retrograde like many learned ones.

Answer 4

OOh that's good. It reminds me of a "Red Dwarf" show. That was a BBC scifi comedy. They were going backwards in time, food coming out of their mouths when eating, etc. Then one of them had to take a dump!! Yuck!

Answer 5

Physics says that when a photon strikes an electron it occurs backwards in time. It's sort of like how the undertow makes the wave possible, you wouldn't "see" anything if time ran only linearly. So yes our conscious experience of time, of cause and effect, isn't the whole story, and one direction or another in time is just the "grain" that we happen to follow in the wood.

Quantum physics states that future events affect past ones as easily as vice versa.  Think of your experiential time-line as a path marked in the road, because it isn't an absolute state.

I believe, although this is unscientific, that everything that has ever been occurs at once. In reality.

Answer 6

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... i see dinosaurs in the future and men running around with huge beards going OOOGA BOOOGA!!!

Answer 7

how can you go backward in time without knowing it, when if you really were going backwards, the things wouldn't have even happened yet? So if you die, that means you would have had to die before or else you wouldn't be going backwards. it wouldn't work because then you would be dead, and how can you travel through time at all if you're not living? You can't die twice in one lifetime.

hard to explain....... i don't really know how to say it with out making it sound really confusing.

Answer 8

Time doesn't need to be accurate, it needs to be understandable.  Time as we know it is accurate.  Whether or not it is accurate, is not important.  As long as it accomplishes the goal we set for it.  

Perception IS reality.  Reality is how we percieve the world and everything in general.  So by saying that our perception of everything is wrong, then you are saying that reality is false.  And if reality was false then we could not possibly exist.

Answer 9

It is not our "perception" of time that is either accurate or inaccurate.  We cannot "perceive" time.  We can only measure it's passage or our movement through that dimension.   We use predictable vibrations like Cesium atoms or clock pendulums to measure the passage of time.

There must be some significance to our direction in time but no one has figured it out yet.  We do know that anti-particles can be viewed as particles that move backwards in time relative to us.  

At one time there was an idea presented in physics that the entire universe was created by one particle that bounced back and forth in time, becoming an anti-particle as it "hit" the "end of the time universe" and started moving backwards in time, whatever that means.  However, it was quickly realized that if that were true there would be an equal number of particles and their anti-particles in the universe and that they would annihilate each other.

Answer 10

our perception of time is not accurate and here is why. People seem to think we perceive in the present, but the truth of the matter is that we perceive in the past. Every external appearance is part of the past. Why? The answer is simple, it takes a certain amount of time for your brain to create a picture that your eyes can see, regardless of how tiny this amount of time is, everything is still in the past. In the present there is only existence.

Answer 11

...every time i clock out or in for work...is good enough for me...

Answer 12

we don't know these things.

perhaps you have a little much time on your hands...find a project to do...go hang with some friends at the coffee house, take in some art at a gallery....

Answer 13

Time is relative.