To me "the present" is the passing of the panorama of real time happenings to my senses. That there's an actual lag time to GET past my sensors and to my brain I really don't care. In the end, reality and time is only as it's perceived by me.
keith whaley Dr E D F Williams wrote: > > In fact we do it all the time. There is a considerable lag between the > registering of information on the retina and the final production of > information in the brain. What we see (always) has already happened and is > in the past - there is no present. Another matter while I'm going so far off > topic. There is no such thing as 'time'. Time is man-made -- just like > Mathematics, and all the wonderfully complex mathematical 'Laws' of Physics. > Quarks and many other wonders exist, indeed they do, but not as we explain > or imagine them. No one knows this better than the Cosmologists and Particle > Physicists who investigate the nature of such 'things'. > > Now I'll duck. > > Don [...]
