we live in the Matrix
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quantum mechanics discovered the "big world" is also an illusion
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the rules of these two "real worlds" contradict though
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anyway yeah "time" is an illusion so so is "speed" as we describe it
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that's really poor phrasing but I don't have many characters
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if you were a photon you wouldn't perceive the other photon as having a speed
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at light speed t is a divide by zero error ("infinity"), time doesn't pass
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from light's "perspective" all events are "simultaneous"
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the thought experiment is that as you get closer to light speed you become more
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like the photon, time "passes" less and less for you
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key is this isn't a weird thing that light does
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seeing things have an order they take place in and time passing is a weird thing
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when you diagram space-time your "light cone" is the region in which
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