Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
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Lol
Time is just an illusion anyway. We can't measure time, because time is the measurement. It's how humans measure change. Fundamentally a second is no more "real" than a centimeter. You can't have a bag of either, so to speak. They're just abstract concepts.
They all are concepts that can be tied to something material. We know how to manipulate matter to create more light, for example, yet lumen is as intangible as is centimeter
I would argue that moving things is not the same as changing a distance. If that were the case, then moving an event to a different time or our own moving forward in time would be the equivalent to moving an object through space, meaning we can alter time.
Hmm, fair!
Never thought of it that way. In these terms, spacetime is fairly consistent.
You can skip percieved time by sleeping.
You can also alter time by going fast. Satellites have to account for time dilation for their positioning.
Sure, that's what I mentioned under relativistic effects
But it's very minor and mostly hypothetical for anything but clock correction
Fun fact about relative speeds though if you can drive at 1/5 of the speed of light you should never get a ticket for running a red light as all red light will be green due to the doppler effect. That said the speeding ticket you'll get...
Well the light would only be green to you not to the traffic cameras or police right?
The ticket will be so hard next one will be for the bus
Love those hypotheticals, though