re: Joe Rogan & a NASA astrophysicist talk about measuring time

Time is a manifestation of whiteness.

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Time, or the perception of it, accelerates as you get older.

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An interesting take I heard on this years ago goes something like this:

Part of our perception of time is based on our accumulated life experiences. The short version is that we subconsciously measure the passage of time against the amount of time we've already experienced. The more we've experienced, the faster it seems to go. Conversely, the less we've experienced, the longer time seems to take to pass as we're comparing that amount of time to the totality of our lifetime.

Think of it a bit like a backpack which you can squeeze ~80 years of experiences into.

At 10 years old, time crawls by. For the analogy, you're looking at your backpack and thinking you'll never possibly fill the whole thing. 5 years represents half of your accumulation and 20 years represents double of what you have today (and there will still be tons of room left).

At 60, time seems to have sped up. For the analogy, you're looking at your backpack and seeing only 25% of the space left. 5 years is only a small portion of your accumulation and by 20 years it will be full. Each moment of time is therefore smaller than what you're comparing it to than it was when you were 10.

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Repeat the process. You will never get there because you can't divide the remaining distance to 0 by splitting it in half.

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I’ve always kept that argument in my back pocket in case I ever have to go to court for being accused of hitting someone.

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Better question is what happened to it? Did time and everything within it just go away? All the events of the past, what happened to them? They couldn't have just disappeared.
Where'd they/it all go?

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Langoliers.

Rogan has done too many shrooms.

Nice!

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all of the chemical and electrical processes that formed my memory of walking down the hallway would reverse

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I think best to view theoretical physics stand-alone (universal), separate from human perception (cognitive and proximal limits).

The human brain governs the human’s perception and experience with the theoretical physics. As well, it influences the theory itself.

Therein, I believe, is a “why” (art) in this beautiful design and what we are allowed to understand (science) that I think can only be explained by a greater power.

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Uhh the rotation of the earth based on the position of the sun? Is that not what we base time one? Help me out here

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you're thinking too small

What is a clock measuring? The time the earth makes one full rotation.

The answer is no different than " when we measure distance.. what are we measuring?

The items of measure are fabricated by man over time. In the case of time, it's by angles and mathematics. Minutes and seconds existed before a mechanical clock did. Well before.

The action, or item, that is being measured with a clock is defined as one earth rotation.

I understand what he is trying to say, but he asked a complex question in a simple way. A clock measures the earth's rotation. As we stand here on it. Is that clock any good as you leave earth? Nope. It's a useless trinket then.