Time Travel By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 Time travels features extensively in fiction, but there is some theoretical basis to the ideaArguably, we are always travelling though time, as we move from the past into the future. But time travel usually refers to the possibility of changing the rate at which we travel into the future, or completely reversing it so that we travel into the past. Although a plot device in fiction since the 19th Century (see the section on Time in Literature), time...

Time Perception By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 Every individual perceives the flow of time differentlyTime perception refers to a person’s subjective experience of the passage of time, or the perceived duration of events, which can differ significantly between different individuals and/or in different circumstances. Although physical time appears to be more or less objective, psychological time is subjective and potentially malleable, exemplified by common phrases like “time flies when you a...

Temporal Illusions By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 The stopped clock illusion (chronostasis) is one of the most common temporal illusionsA temporal illusion is a distortion in the perception of time that occurs for various reasons, such as due to different kinds of stress. In such cases, a person may momentarily perceive time as slowing down, stopping, speeding up, or even running backwards, as the timing and temporal order of events are misperceived. When we say that time slows down, what we...