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Forever Now
It is likely true none of us have a grasp on time. We think we do, and some of us may do it better than we imagine, like waking up before an alarm goes off, or never being late. We live in spacetime. Not space. Not time. These aren’t separated attributes of reality. This was given to us by Einstein, and confirmed by many of experiments. Spacetime itself flows, at different rates. As matter lumps together and gravity increases, it bogs down spacetime. Enough matter, or enough energy, can break spacetime. As you approach a black hole, spacetime seemingly stops. As you’re falling into the black hole, a conscious observer doesn’t see their life as stopped. Your conscious clock is still ticking as you would normally perceive it, anywhere in the universe.
Does that fact say something about consciousness within spacetime?Someone’s conscious clock in orbit, still ticking at normal perceived rates, but they are clicking away faster than we on the surface. Not imagine or a shift in perspective, but measurably different Even in a building, the higher you go, the faster your conscious clicks go compared to surface dwellers.
Spacetime itself may reverberate with quantum fluctuations
Time crystals are a real thing, see above. The quantum world seems to oscillate from…
