Slowing Time
Can we slow time?
Not just yet! But time is also perception so for some it will go faster while for others it will always speed up. Therefore, mastering the perception of time is a life skill which unfortunately is not covered by our modern education systems. Although, it could prove to be very, very useful in life.
In the video footage above, produced by Michio Kaku (an extraordinarytheoretical physicist), we learn that time does slow down when brain speeds up. This reminds of this movie Crank, the guy on adrenalin. It also proves that humans are capable or thinking and perceiving faster then the usual rate. But this is kind of directly dependent on other functions in our body.
People say that we use 10% of our brains but we fail to note that all other human characteristics like walking, coordination, in general things that we take for granted, do require a lot of processing power. So although we can work faster, it is unfeasible to do so unless we compromise other areas of our body. It feels like constructing a character for one of these RPG games. You have 20 points and you have to spread them equally to various characteristics. If you put to much brain, that will effect your agility.
“People say that we use 10% of our brains”
The brain is a neural net. We use 100% of it. It is more appropriate to say that we use it with 10% efficiency. Though it seems to me someone pulled this number out of a hat. I don’t recall any way to estimate the efficiency of a neural net other than brute forcing it. And I doubt there’s any scientific estimate about how much brain power we use.
This does not prove or even suggest that time speeds up or slows down. Even though they went through all the trouble of using a video camera and recording it, and then narrating over it to make it sound like they’d done all the research necessary, it comes down to common sense.
The brain adjusts to the body as we age, and our grasp of time comes from the observance of things around us(the moon, the sun, animals, plants) in relation to the average rate we perceive things at, which can be directly tied to heart rate. Just like the rat, if we are used to a certain heart rate and are trained to watch hours pass by so we can adjust to the length of a minute, it makes it easier for our brains to meter when a minute has passed.
If you adjust to a certain heart rate, then all of a sudden you are dropped from a skyscraper and your heart rate speeds up, blood will move through your body faster than normal causing the sample resolution of your observances to improve. This would help to explain why he was able to recognize changing numbers that he was previously unable to, but even the test was faulty in that it can’t be discounted that the force of falling might have had an effect other than increasing the heart rate of the participant.
Time has been shown to be directly effected by gravitational forces and this may be attributed to a particle’s increased ease of motion when it is not competing with an alternate force (just a guess). However, falling from 12 stories would have no noticeable impact on time, and if he was wearing a watch it would still be well tuned after he landed.