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How-to-perceive-time-stopping
Posted On 10/03/2008 17:59:49 by rapturas

Einstein demonstrated that time is relative.

But the rabbit-hole goes much deeper. Quantum physics discovered that consciousness is entangled in matter in some inexplicable ways; but other than the very fast, or very small, or very large, we tend to assume our “ordinary” reality conforms more to the laws of Newton. Simple cause and effect unfolding with clockwork constancy —well, it’s time to shatter this assumption. Let’s stop time.

Find a clock with a smooth sweeping second hand. The one on this page might work, but depending on how much is running on your computer, it may or may not be completely smooth. If it appears relatively smooth, it will still work, you’ll be able to factor out what you are controlling.

(works with this clock, sorry, couldnt embed it http://www.gheos.net/js/clock )

After watching the second hand for a bit, look off to the side of the clock, outside of the box, and about 15 to 20 minutes ahead of the second hand. You should still be able to see the second hand, but you won’t be looking directly at it. Now just relax and see if you can stop the second hand. If it starts catching up to the point you are looking at, jump ahead to another spot about 20 minutes ahead. With very little practice you are extremely likely to make a most remarkable discovery. You can stop time. Perhaps at first for only a second or two, but with practice, you’ll be able to freeze it for longer. If you can’t get it right away, try playing with your focus point, move it further away or closer to the frame of the clock. Or look at one of the hour markers on the clock about 20 to 30 minutes ahead. After you get it, try counting internally. The count you reach is the number of discrete thought processes you performed in zero clock time.

Once you’ve accomplished this amazing feat, what does it mean? Some people think it’s just a simple optical illusion, that they merely stopped seeing the second hand which was actually still moving (which gets entertaining with banishing incantations of blind spots, foveal vision, saccades and such.) But if they ask themselves why it started moving again from the point it stopped (and most won’t), their explanation doesn’t quite pan out. Some will just dismiss it as a curious blip that doesn’t really fit into their radar about “reality” and it won’t be cause for further concern. But a few of us will notice the crack between experience and beliefs and want to play. Does it stop sound at the same time? For some people, for others not, which is curiouser still.

Maybe consciousness can be more than a passive observer of this “constant” called time?

http://grasshopperx.com/mind-games/how-to-stop-time/

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-the-Second-Hand-on-a-Clock-Appear-to-Stop

Enjoy





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From: Lunarstorm777
10/05/2008 02:18:42

I dunno, I think they honestly hypothosized that bats sped up their brains in the last second or portion of a second to process the data more precisely in the experiment I was watching. Then of course it dropped back down to normal operating levels once their prey had been captured.... I dunno, little time to find the program I was watching again.

Yeah, I kinda side with the whole optical illusion thing myself.... Just seems to make the most sense.

Interesting about your uncle, if he ever decides to tell you these secrets, by all means do share lol.

I have a funny feeling at some point E=mc2 will have to be revised a bit.... Just a hunch heh. I mean humanity is still so primative really.... I doubt we are playing with the full deck of cards yet. I personally think they simply haven't found a way to show that photons have mass.... I personally think even if on a sub quantom level, they in fact do have some.... Then again, if you consider the possibility that the whole universal ether theory was in fact right (Before it was discarded), it might possibly be able to explain why the speed of light seems a constant.... I have always found it funny that you can slow down a photon, but not make it accelerate past a certain point.... But then if you believe in worm holes and what not, your technically going from point A to point B faster than light.... I know, relative term, but so is the speed of light in reality... I mean, even though space is a vacuum, there is still plenty of crap floating around in it heh.

Yanno, I've looked at the LHC, but not really delved in deeply enough to have an educated response to that question.... I could generally theorize perhaps the gained mass is in quantom level mass of some sort? I just wonder what comes after the quantom level.... In things like the theorized string level.... Perhaps using quantom level accelerants, or even string level accelerants, you could possibly break the speed of light? Ahhh, I'm rambling now lol.

 

From: rapturas
10/04/2008 08:20:50

Isnt that something to do with the doppler effect in regards to bats? i know usually the doppler effect is based on your observation of something emitting a frequency/sound, not sure if it works on sonar lol end of the day though, i would imagine that bats were "programmed" to be able to process data accordingly, if they were "overclocking" all the time they would use up more energy et al.

Quantum entanglement is interesting though, not sure if you have looked into it much?

Anyway, the stopping of the seconds hand i think is just a neat trick like this optical illusions:- 

Its how our brains process the data, we see what 24/30 frames per second? a fly from what i understand sees around 150/200 frames per second, so if a fly was to watch tv, they would mostly see still images or just a blank tv with images appear some of the time lol 

I know some humans can think faster than usual when their life is at stake (as an example). My uncle fell from a height once and he told me it was like he was falling in slow motion, he was able to effectively prevent any major injuries like broken bones. Saying that though, he was in the army for a long time and was taught some "far out things" which he would never elaborate on other than to say that those far out things were often taught as fact then later retracted and told to forget it all lol. Even to this day i wish i knew what he knew

Anyway, regarding the speed of light, its not a constant speed and light has been slowed down in labs. There is a maximum limit to how fast a photon (light) can travel and it is considered the universal speed limit. Unless E=mc2is found to be wrong (where c = the speed of light in a vacuum) then light is the fastest travelling thing we know of. 

One thing i dont understand (and havent looked into yet lol) is that the Large Hardon Collider (the particle accelerator by CERN) uses hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons (one electron per atom) leaving just one proton per atom, an atom is still matter but they are able to speed them up effectively to 99% the speed of light with the proton only gaining 25% more mass. From my understanding, matter cannot reach that speed as it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate that matter, that matter becase it gains mnore mass the closer it gets to the speed of light requires even more energy to speed up the additional mass. I know a proton is tiny but it is still matter. Will look into it later lol



From: Lunarstorm777
10/04/2008 04:42:02


Quote:
Quantum physics discovered that consciousness is entangled in matter in some inexplicable ways;

I gather this is from an article, but did they elaborate anymore on that?

Yeah, they did a study of bats catching insects via their "sonar".... If I remember the story correctly they came to the same conclusion that as they neared their prey, the chirps obviously got faster to zero in on the insects, but their brains operated quicker to process them.... Like over clocking a computer for a moment or two... Which seems feasible and completely unnecessary to bring quantum physics in the equation...

As for the whole clock thing, I think for some its more of a tunnel vision effect than a stopping of time. And furthermore, if it is really just overlocking our brains for a half second or so, this might also explain why some don't hear sound for that moment... Their brains are working faster for that half moment and sound waves seem to "stretch" out kind of.... So in essence in my opinion its just a neat trick that plays on one's relative perception of the world around us..... If it really is a quantom blip of some sort, lets see if we can make the clock go backwards.... If anyone can pull that off and then defocus on the second hand at a spot its already been, please let me know.... I want to take some lessons lol.

Oh and as for the speed of light thing, yeah... I've been thinking this one over for a long time and it seems like its been over played a bit.... I guess its all based around everyone telling me that light moves at a constant speed no matter the circumstances, which seems wrong to me (Which I think they disproved a while back by firing a laser through a super cooled gas filled tube of some sort, I'll hafta see if I can find that experiment again).... So.... There is my mad rambling...



From: TheBreeze
10/03/2008 19:42:52
haha this article says curiouser

From: rapturas
10/03/2008 19:33:38

If you dropped a clock into a blackhole it would [supposedly] slow down the closer it came to the event horizon (if you were observing the clock falling). Satellites use atomic clocks (the frequency of some atom, cant remember which) because time up there is different to down here (space/time ). im off to bed now but will dig out some of the info pertaining to the aforementioned

oh yeah, if you were to approach the speed of light, time slows down apparently lol

ps. read this if you have a few spare minutes, i think it mentions about the atomic clock in there

night night

 

From: CelticCurls
10/03/2008 19:19:08
The idea of changing your "neural kinetic" is fascinating.  I've heard amazing rumors of athletes who are "in the zone." 
There was a study awhile back, where they dropped people in free fall to a net, like some of those amusement park attractions.  They had a bright red watch with a readout of rapidly changing numbers - changing just fast enough you couldn't read any of them.  They were hoping to see that the people falling, because of the "life flashing before their eyes" effect, would be able to read those numbers, but none did.  I want to look up the actual paper sometime though, to see if I agree with their methods.
Computers speed up and slow down their processors all the time, seems like we could too.


From: littlered
10/03/2008 19:02:59
I have just looked at it, it did stop for about a millisecond a couple of times for me. What is even more interesting is the explanation as a follow up. Fascinating!!!! I am going back to play some more.


From: FieryRedHalo
10/03/2008 18:42:28
when I'm not so tired I'll have to check it out :) I love reading things like this


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