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That is a correct conclusion.
I had noticed a while ago, through other concepts, that the passage of time is just an illusion our mind creates for us. There is just this one moment, there is no past or future. This illusion created by the mechanics in our brains helps us survive, it helps us have an easier time making sense of the world.
Some coma patients describe people visiting them, family members, the nurses, not in order over a period of time as we would normally perceive, but instead all at once. I suspect it is because the part of their brain that is currently damaged happens to be the part that controls this illusion.
That video is an old lecture. New things keep getting discovered, just like Feynman states in the video. So things are a bit different now. Just a few days ago I came across a paper describing yet another effect that shows something moving faster than the speed of light. The other effects I have known about in the past would require some fancy equipment and so it would be tougher for me to replicate the set up. But this new concept only requires two antennas and a nice oscilloscope. Which means that I can observe this effect for myself. (the effect is that the "light" or rather radio waves near the transmitting antenna moves much faster than the speed of light, and it may be at an infinite speed. After one wavelength the light slows down to the speed of light for the remainder of its journey.)
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I had noticed a while ago, through other concepts, that the passage of time is just an illusion our mind creates for us. There is just this one moment, there is no past or future. This illusion created by the mechanics in our brains helps us survive, it helps us have an easier time making sense of the world.
Some coma patients describe people visiting them, family members, the nurses, not in order over a period of time as we would normally perceive, but instead all at once. I suspect it is because the part of their brain that is currently damaged happens to be the part that controls this illusion.
That video is an old lecture. New things keep getting discovered, just like Feynman states in the video. So things are a bit different now. Just a few days ago I came across a paper describing yet another effect that shows something moving faster than the speed of light. The other effects I have known about in the past would require some fancy equipment and so it would be tougher for me to replicate the set up. But this new concept only requires two antennas and a nice oscilloscope. Which means that I can observe this effect for myself. (the effect is that the "light" or rather radio waves near the transmitting antenna moves much faster than the speed of light, and it may be at an infinite speed. After one wavelength the light slows down to the speed of light for the remainder of its journey.)
I once said to an old man “I do not have enough time” he just looked at me and said “Time is an abstract concept” and walked away. ;-)
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hehe, I like that. That was a wise old man.
Now that you have noticed this description of time, one can extrapolate and see that this makes time travel impossible. Not because we wouldn't be capable of engineering a machine for time travel, but rather because we would have nowhere to go even if we had a time machine.
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Now that you have noticed this description of time, one can extrapolate and see that this makes time travel impossible. Not because we wouldn't be capable of engineering a machine for time travel, but rather because we would have nowhere to go even if we had a time machine.