ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...
ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN - Islamic Books, Islamic Movies ...
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<strong>ETERNITY</strong> <strong>HAS</strong> <strong>ALREADY</strong> <strong>BEGUN</strong><br />
the person who put you in there says that you spent only two days<br />
in there; that the sun you saw from the window was falsely produced;<br />
and that the clock in the room was especially regulated to<br />
move faster, then your calculation would be erroneous.<br />
This example dramatizes that the information we have about the<br />
rate of time's passing is based only on references that change according<br />
to the perceiver.<br />
In the same way, the way that the speed of the passage of time is<br />
perceived differently be everyone depending on the circumstances<br />
proves that time consists of a psychological perception. For example,<br />
a 10-minute delay while waiting to meet a friend may seem a<br />
very long time to you. Or an extra 10 minutes sleep may seem very<br />
long to someone waking to go to school or work after a sleepless<br />
night, and he may actually imagine he has had a full night's sleep<br />
because of it. Under some circumstances, the opposite may apply.<br />
As you will remember from your student days, a 10-minute break<br />
after a lesson lasting 40 minutes, or seeming to last a century, may<br />
go by very quickly.<br />
That relativity of time is a scientific fact, also proven by scientific<br />
methodology. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity shows<br />
that the speed of time changes depending on the speed of the object<br />
and its distance from the center of gravity. As speed increases, time<br />
is shortened—compressed—and slows down until it approaches to<br />
the point of stopping entirely.<br />
Einstein himself gave an example. Imagine two twins, one of whom<br />
remains on Earth while the other goes into space at a speed close to the<br />
speed of light. On his return, the traveler will find that his brother has<br />
grown much older than he has. The reason is that time flows much<br />
more slowly for the person who travels at near-light speed. The same<br />
example may be used for a father travelling into space on a rocket at<br />
99% of the speed of light, and his son who remains on Earth.