The even more fucked part is that everyone’s lag is different, and there is no universal “now”. Check this out if you want to lay awake for a few nights:
I can recommend neurological research too. Turns out individuals have different “clock speeds”, influencing their reaction time and even the “frame rate” of their visual perception (Fighter jet pilots!). Time is a funny thing, even without taking spacetime into account.
Everything you see is just the past because of how slow light is and how slow signals in your body are. We’re living with a constant lag!
The even more fucked part is that everyone’s lag is different, and there is no universal “now”. Check this out if you want to lay awake for a few nights:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk–Putnam_argument
I can recommend neurological research too. Turns out individuals have different “clock speeds”, influencing their reaction time and even the “frame rate” of their visual perception (Fighter jet pilots!). Time is a funny thing, even without taking spacetime into account.