18 June 2012

How we see things

Consider the point that you age every second of your life. Now with that in mind, every picture you take will be a picture of a younger you. Thus any form of representation of yourself physically is of yourself from the past. Consider a mirror, the light reflects off the mirror and reaches your eye which is then processed by the brain. Now light travels at 3x10^8 m/s, say you stand 1 meter away from the mirror, now time equals distance/speed. Therefore 1/3x10^8 secs add that to the amount of time your brain takes to process the image and make sense of it. Thus even when you view something you are always viewing it in the past even though everything exists in the present. We technically live in the past unless we know of the existence of a particular object at that precise moment in time, being aware but not viewing it physically.

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