Arlie Pitzold

3RD SCIENCE 1
 The Illusion of Time

"Time is not as it appears... The lines between the past, present, and future could
not even exist’’. Quantum physics research suggests that time is not at all like how
we experience it in our daily lives. All societies, even the most ancient, had a
fascination with time. For instance, the Maya used three distinct, connected
calendars to measure time: one for the sun, one for the moon, and one for Venus.
But according to Einstein, motion across space and time has an impact on how
each of us perceives time. Space and time are interconnected, and no two people
have the same experience of time. Atomic clocks on a plane and on the ground
were used to measure time during an experiment in which a jet plane circled the
earth. It was shown that time progressed more slowly on the moving plane than it
did on land.
Because time and space are melded together to form space-time, Brian Greene
emphasized that the distinctions we draw between the past, present, and future is
really an illusion. An extraterrestrial on a bicycle traveling hundreds of light years
away from us in another galaxy would not perceive us as we are right now (if he
could see us through his telescope), but rather as we were in the past, possibly in
the time of Beethoven.

Although there is technically no reason why time should not flow in both
directions, one of the most perplexing aspects of time is that it is one-directional.
The propensity of nature to drift toward increased disarray is where the arrow of
time originates. The arrow of time was therefore pointed in the direction of chaos
at the Big Bang.
To conclude We feel time passing by in our deepest selves in a way that is far
more personal than our sense of, say, space or mass, making it the most
fundamental aspect of human perception. Time has been compared to the trajectory
of an arrow and to an ever-flowing stream, carrying us imperceptibly from the past
to the future. In truth, physicists maintain that time is only an abstraction and
therefore does not flow at all. But there are only so many things that we as humans
are capable of comprehending; ideally, as we progress further throughout time,
we'll be able to develop a much greater understanding of the imprecise idea of
time.