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What determines our perception of the rate at which time passes? My understanding from relativity would be that the rate at which we perceive time to pass relative to a fully stationary observer is mostly (or fully) dependent on our velocity at any particular moment, which remains basically the exact same for every creature on Earth as Earth moves through space. Given this, the rate at which we perceive time to pass does not appear to change as our velocity changes when there is no reference frame (no control observer for the experiment). Am I basically right in what I have said so far?
My main question here is: does our perception of time have to be the way it is due to physical laws, or is it reliant upon our physiology to a certain extent i.e. our brains capacity for registering time passing between events?
Thanks. Feel free to point out anywhere I may have said something silly. This isn't my area of expertise.
My main question here is: does our perception of time have to be the way it is due to physical laws, or is it reliant upon our physiology to a certain extent i.e. our brains capacity for registering time passing between events?
Thanks. Feel free to point out anywhere I may have said something silly. This isn't my area of expertise.