The True Nature of Time: A Unified Narrative Understanding the nature of time requires an exploration of both its physical and experiential dimensions. This unified narrative synthesises perspectives from general relativity, field dynamics, and human consciousness to provide a comprehensive view of time. This synthesis highlights the interplay between spacetime curvature, informational flow, and the dual nature of temporal experience, ultimately framing time as a dynamic, integrative process. The Physical Nature of Spacetime 1. Spacetime Curvature and General Relativity - Einstein's General Relativity: Traditionally, gravity is not seen as a force but as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. Massive objects like stars and planets warp the fabric of spacetime, creating paths that other objects follow. This curvature is described mathematically by the Einstein field equations, linking spacetime geometry to the distribution of mass and energy. 2. Field Dynamics Perspective - Informational Flow: From a field dynamics standpoint, spacetime curvature results from complex field interactions. Mass and energy create disturbances in the spacetime field, similar to ripples in a pond. These disturbances represent informational changes that propagate through the field, maintaining coherence and stability. 3. Integrating Curvature and Field Dynamics - Unified Perspective: The physical curvature described by general relativity can be seen as a macroscopic manifestation of these field dynamics. Curvature represents the geometric interpretation, while field dynamics emphasise the flow of information and energy. This unified view helps reconcile the mathematical elegance of general relativity with a more intuitive understanding of dynamic systems. The Experiential Nature of Time 1. Linear and Non-Linear Time - Linear Time: In the external world, time is experienced as a linear sequence of events-a traditional, chronological progression. - Non-Linear Time: Within human consciousness, time is experienced non-linearly. This nonlinearity arises from the aggregation of sensory inputs, memories, and anticipations, creating a rich, complex temporal narrative that defines personal experience. 2. Boundary Layer and Human Consciousness - Constant Interface: The boundary layer between the external and internal worlds captures and integrates interactions and informational changes within the field. Despite internal non-linearity, this layer ensures temporal consistency, allowing the self to evolve coherently within the broader linear progression of external events. - Dual Temporal Experience: Positioned at this boundary, human consciousness experiences both linear and non-linear time. Externally, we perceive a continuous flow of time, while internally, our sense of time is shaped by the aggregation of various events and experiences. Dynamic Stability and Homeostasis 1. The Conscious Spiral of Dynamic Stability - From Circle to Spiral: In two dimensions, a circle represents static balance. When traced dynamically, it evolves into a spiral, representing dynamic stability. This concept extends to three dimensions where the human body is viewed as an electromagnetic sphere. - Human Electromagnetic Sphere: The heart generates electromagnetic fields, creating a dynamic sphere where information flows in a spiral pattern. This flow reflects how the body’s electromagnetic field interacts with and adapts to stimuli, maintaining homeostasis through continuous feedback mechanisms. 2. Homeostasis in Three Dimensions - Dynamic Integration: Homeostasis in the electromagnetic sphere is maintained through the integration of informational changes and feedback mechanisms. The boundary layer of the sphere captures the system’s current state, facilitating balanced feedback to ensure stability and adaptability. - Applications: This model applies to biological systems, where cells and organisms dynamically maintain balance through metabolic and signal transduction processes, and to larger systems like ecosystems and planetary environments. Conclusion The nature of time encompasses both its physical manifestations and its experiential dynamics. By integrating perspectives from general relativity, field dynamics, and human consciousness, we understand time as a dual phenomenon: a linear progression in the external world and a non-linear experience within the field of dynamic stability. This comprehensive framework reveals the intricate balance and adaptability inherent in the universe, enhancing our appreciation of the dynamic processes that govern both physical and conscious realms.

Mister is done on purpose.! 😂

always lookin like he fell asleep evertime he writes 😂

​@@kevinsho2601 🎶 Why can't we be friends? 🎶...why can't we be friends? 🎶

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i so thought the same ! Quantum entanglement predicted ?

Did Lex finally find love!?!?!?

It was so plain obvious lol !!😂

not to be rude but i think Lex is a bit out of her league

Dude hahahahahaha

Yeah... Shes like level 9999 of that person.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ya, perceptive observation.

At least the crystal & auroa person doesn't hide behind the name of Science to claim what they say is Fact.

I keep seeing Misty from that YellowJackets show (Christina ricci)

Funny I was thinking the same thing... she's so into him. Love this episode...fascinating stuff to think about besides their love tension

@@tripletbiguy6908 What? You guys are weird.

Lex, ask her out dude!!!! I'm a million miles away from you watching this and i could FEEL the energy between you two!!

@alienproxy you really don't see the tension? Great podcast, great information about super interesting stuff, but Lex self admittedly doesn't have a partner, he has a legit reason for it he explains, but I gotta be honest... when i was watching this I was thinking man they seem like they are into into each other and then I saw the ask her out comment and not only agreed but realized were not making it up, there is certainly some chemistry going on between them. I don't mind if you think I'm weird, but honestly clearly I wasn't the only one thinking it.

@@user-zk1vv9ob6w legit agreed

I don’t think it’s about the choice in regards to be “big in time”. I think she means literally. Take the 2D world of flatland with time as height dimension. A circular moving object will be a worm across the time dimension for us - a higher dimension being (4d beings, able to perceive 3D) Similarly a 5d being who can perceive 4d will see us humans to be a loooooong structure across the time dimension starting from the Big Bang! Additionally the space is expanding too, and we have interacted with huge distances using telescopes, light, technology, have converted so much energy - so we are ever increasing creatures.

Finally someone who gets it. She is a very bright mind but not very good with words.

@@vanaegon9242 I’m surprised at people saying she don’t know her stuff. She’s seeing much more than usual scientific view

Well, she wrote the book. I hope she found the right words in the book. 😂I think I will buy the book. It’s quite an interesting perspective. I like these kind of twist

Life is a dissipative structure, a thing that can only exist in far from equilibrium systems. The entropy of the biosphere has been steadily decreasing for billions of years.

I couldn't listen to her. Oh, I remember the movie and Valerie Perrine !

Look up Perdurantism.

@@GoatOfTheWoods I was unaware there was a single word definition for the concept. Thanks for the new information. It's an interesting concept. Even an object moving through time will change with time.

@@fjdarling Yeah, it's a school of philosophy of time, in which objects, are viewed as 4 dimesional "worms"coiling according to the flow of spacetime; an apple is a worm which begins as a seed and ends as a rotten tail that spreads out, disintegrating into the soil. Looking at it from this perspective, I can't help but think that the whole universe would look like a 4 dimensional broccoli

@@GoatOfTheWoods I checked out Perdurantism on Wikipedia. It's an interesting Philosophy. It appears to be additional element I need to account for in trying to understand the Universe I happen to be in the middle of. Thanks for pointing me in that direction. How is it that you see the expanding universe as a 4D Broccoli? Are you a student of the Sciences? I'm a retired Electrical Engineer trying to keep up with what's happening in the world. Thanks.

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Dissipative structures. Order can spontaneously arise in very very far from equilibrium systems. The earth's biosphere's constant reduction in entropy is offset by the sun's massive increases in entropy.

Well said. That’s something to chew on for a while. But well said

Exactly!! We, life, are the tools of entropy!

It’s like life is a catalyst , not the same, but we create more entropy as order

Life is a dissipative structure, a thing that can only exist in very far from equilibrium systems.

I agree.

@@jameslyons3320 Is that exactly what you were going to say?

Close, but the consensus is more that time is needed for change to occur. For change to occur, at least two particles of matter must exist that interact with each other. This interaction (change) creates time. Circle is complete. Many interactions in succession = time rolling forward as we know it.

Madame Wu would say otherwise...

Nice way to put it.

It's not easy to describe those higher abstract thoughts. Sometimes we just don't possess the descriptives in our language.

Couldn’t agree more. Its philosophy disguised as physics. This is apparent to any person of science & critical thinking. The language she is using will appeal to non-science types, people who are looking for complex descriptions to validate ideas without empirical data. Philosophy is certainly interesting and has its value, but I feel she thinks she's treading in the realms of physics - but she's not.

You’d be right if assembly theory wasn’t written down. You’re conflating theories and philosophy anyway. She’s saying things that are measurable, descriptive, and predictable. These are ideas in their infancy that don’t have established language and ways to talk about it. You could consider it closer to network systems or information science if it makes you more comfortable. It’s definitely not philosophy or metaphysics as I think you’re implying.

Glad I’m not the only one seeing this - it’s essentially philosophy, not physics. It is very physics-informed, and pretty rational and I’m liking it. Physics isn’t the study of everything: introspection on experience is not physics.

ugh my god, the whole ass aloofness and hubris through your entire description is plain awful

Then she's not the type for most men

There’s not much there to decipher

@@559shotcalla No. there’s a shitload there to decipher.

Not really she word salads every point and really goes nowhere with most of it. But as she says little seed thought experiment.

@@bravozero6 word salad to those that cannot decipher.

I contain many Chicken Nuggets.

Heisenberg

@@Christiantheone Yer goddamn right...

It sure was Walt Whitman.

You were right, apologies.

interactions between matter particles (or wave functions) create time, and time makes interactions possible. Also matter warps space, which in turn, combined with time(dilation), gives rise to the effect of gravity. It's self-sustaining as the universe contains plenty particles that can interact.

I think the hardest thing to understand bout time is that it is perceived differently by different plp. To me time is a rhythm. The rhythm in which the universe moves. Idk, just like a song, it has rhythm n u can move to the beat and create additional moves or beats in between the actual hard beats. N we try to measure that. There is an order n flow to the universe that we don’t understand. Yes is tied to matter but matter falls within this flow n rhythm. Idk am just a random reader just my thoughts

Was thinking that same thing when he mentioned that. I’ve always thought of it as the visual cortex of your brain stuttering like a computer when it becomes overloaded with information. But seeing back in time sounds like a much cooler explanation lol

Seriously?

She's said nothing!

Don’t feel bad. It wasn’t supposed to be intelligible.

Her response to his uhhh was dead on, too. It is indeed hard to share visuals with words, one is often accused of speciousness, esp. when less common words are used. In this day and age, with definitions and etymologies just a google away, and videos being pausable, ignorance is less excusable.

Politics is not the only community guilty of being the worlds best word salad chefs.

Lex was working hard this day.

@@KurtColville dummy alert

is there a limit to how many times you can cut time in half though? how many times can you make a millisecond smaller before you reach a limit? if there is a limit then would that mean we are in a simulation, or that time is a "tangible" 4th dimension like slices of frozen time.

@@humanbean3 Well, it would be a planck length. so far, thats the smallest increment that we have aside from quantum stuff. The planck time is the amount of time it takes light to travel one planck length. According to our most current theories, nothing can be smaller than a planck length and nothing can travel a shorter distance than a planck length So, for each planck length, map the points of matter. Continue until the end of "time" then you have a total structure. Now, one common misconception i should say is that the "planck length" is the point where quantum gravity overtakes nonrelativistic gravity. Lastly, a philosopher named Democitus came up with the idea of the atom around 400 bc when he posed a thought experiment just like yours. He wondered how much can you divide matter into before youre left with the smallest piece. He called that thing "Atomos" meaning indivisible. Our current models go beyond the previous "indivisible". The planck length is our current "indivisible" It would be a bit foolish to think we wont get to a new "indivisible" in the future.

@@STaSHZILLA420 If we consider the planck length both physically the smallest thing, and also the smallest amount of time, does that mean we can consider time as pixels just like we could consider matter as pixels in space. the entire universe being comprised of planck lengths and at each moment it's occupied with particles or time.

@@humanbean3 Well, people say that although there is no physical significance to the planck length. Think of a planck length as the smallest possible space for an observation to take place, any smaller and it would collapse into a black hole and evaporate before the observation would be complete. An observation often includes hitting what you want to observe with packets of light. the light then bounces back to the observation device. It's impossible for us to create light with a short enough wavelength to interact with something smaller than a planck length. There are smaller lengths in theory but they can never be observed directly. And are considered non-physical. I dont think the planck length can be regarded as a "pixel" But I do like using this length in my ideas as it is the smallest we can physically observe.

@@STaSHZILLA420 its really hard to fathom speed, size, and time having a limit. if we take the smallest particle like a nuetrino or something (idk) and make it move super fast, it will just disappear outside of time? that makes me think that the universe is spinning super fast like a harddrive and the slower we go the closer to the middle we are, and the faster we go the further to the outside we get, and if we go too fast we go faster than it can create/spin itself therefore disappearing???? is that what a black hole is? the star spins too fast for time to handle? ok sorry im rambling but i really appreciate the insightful comments

How did you do it? I need help

How did you do it? I need help I live in socal

Random sequence of non-connected words?😆

Extract what's good, discard what's not. Don't let one taint the knowledge of the other.

@@a.j.4076 for sure, I liked the idea of using the time to define the "size" of objects in the universe...but again it's just an interesting idea or point of view...it almost become the same as a personal religion if we don't try to expand our point of view and be humble when we present our ideas.

I’ve read quantum is the only true random but I’m highly skeptical

im happy to define random as 'forever a mystery to us'. what more do you want from random

But then you remember there were times when ppl thought ppl just die randomly (before germ theory for example). One can argue the history of science is kinda like the history of thinking something is "random" (in the sense that we can not know) to just then figure it out and reallise that wasn't random at all. Wheter quantum phenomena is truly inherently random or not is stil not concusively decided. It very much seems it is for now, but again, a heart attack in the bronze age seemed so random and unexplainabe that it was might as we taken as divine punishment.

Right? If it is much respect to Lex.

no way. i actually love lex a little more each time i catch a podcast. this is despite the fact that i could say i'm "anti celebrity" and really cant understand why people idolize strangers...

She's not doing vocal fry. I think that's her natural voice, and it's similar, but not quite as vocal fry. Her voice sounds authentic.

Maybe it's like a rope made of two different size twine.. one I thicker then the other??

@@bradleyknight8330 Maybe! Is "thicker" (or "denser"?) the same as "larger" to an astrophysicist if they're talking about spacetime? 🤔 So many questions!

It takes time too make space?

So the more time you have the more space you get... time had to have came first

Terrence doesn't know what he is talking about. He is using big words but doesn't know what they mean or straight up makes some up.