#318 - Physics & Philosophy
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
The Perception of Time
The notion of a present moment, the notion of now is specious at the widest scale, right? So when you're talking about now in another galaxy, you really can't utter that sentence coherently. Based on relativity, if you snap your fingers and then I snap my fingers a second later, so your snap preceded mine by a second in our reference frame, well, you can imagine someone far enough away moving fast enough, say, in relation to us where the sequence is truly reversed. It's perceived that I snapped before you snapped.
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