Posted

May 17th 2009

Mood

I like to observe things.

So I was sitting at my desk, and out of boredom, I went to slam my fists down on my desk as hard as I could. Right before I hit the desk though, I stopped my arms from moving to avoid hitting it. I thought I would have stopped like, directly above the desk. Like very close.

But instead I was about four inches away from it.

This would insinuate that my perception of speed at that moment would have occurred in frames of four inches. I went from full speed, to direct stop, THINKING that I would have gotten *directly above* the desk but instead I was quite a distance away.

So this begged for experimentation.

I went to slam my hands down on my desk several times, attempting to recreate the speed that I had first used. Each time I would get closer and closer to the desk. I waited a bit, and tried it again, but i was again a few inches away from the desk.

I then tried it w/ different objects. I went to slam my hand down on my mouse, and again it was about four inches away. Same with my tea, as well as my keyboard.

So I was more likely to get close to the object if I were to repeatedly slam my hand on it in succession. However when I had paused for a bit, I again was distanced and my perception of speed was lost again.

Does this then mean that if I were to practice slamming my hands down on my desk daily, and diligently, that in time I could reach within a much smaller distance of the desk itself at will? I mean I guess. Since you can train yourself to do things like that.

Really I was more concerned with the perception of speed. Often I'll try to think of this world in digital terms, that maybe stuff occurs in frames or whether or not it is continuous. And i'm sure that many debates could be sparked about it but that is not my intention. It's nothing concrete that I beleive and it's certainly also not really of any matter at all whatsoever.

If pressed on the matter I would be inclined to say that time is just the measure of entropy, although possibly it could be made to look more complex I really don't think much more can be said about it. So in this way, time itself must be continuous. I don't think there is any occurrence rate, except for how your brain perceives it. Of course our neurons can only fire at a certain speed, so in THAT way you might say that the frame rate of the universe is exactly that of which you can perceive it.

It was just interesting to note, and really you could just chalk it up to reflexes, if you want. It may seem kind of pointless, but I like to think of things like that. :n

ANYWAY MY OPINION DOESN'T MATTER IT WAS JUST FUN TO PONDER I LIKE FFFFF AND HEY MY STOMACH HURTS :C