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NO TIME?
Time is an absolute quantity. This is the opinion of the overwhelming majority of physicists. But can we trust this knowledge? Is it reliable? Let's try to understand this confusing issue. Since childhood, we have been accustomed to dividing hours into minutes, which in turn were divided into seconds. Months were added up into years and decades. It seems to us that there are trees, cars, people, a starry sky and nothing else remarkable around the house.
But all this slowly and smoothly floats along the invisible eternal river of time. But is it eternal? When will the end of time come? And what will happen after this unthinkable event? Many writers have tried to predict what might happen if we stop, slow down or reverse the laws of time. The work called "The Clock That Went Backwards" by Edward Mitchell, based on which Hollywood created a film about the unfortunate Benjamin Button, who was born an old man and died as a baby, touches on the idea of what would happen if people could influence time.
The theme was continued by H. G. Wells in his famous novel "The Time Machine" and the story "The New Accelerator". Obviously, nothing good came of it, since human knowledge of time is laughably meager.
But even in the wildest dreams and fantasies, writers did not dare to stop time itself, but only created in their imagination machines traveling along the space-time continuum, or incredible potions that dull the sense of time, and in fact deceive the brain. According to the idea of classical physics, time flows evenly and eternally. Only the movement of objects changes in the sense of their acceleration or deceleration. The time scale is represented as a coordinate axis with points-moments.
People consistently pass from one point to another during their short lives. And no one has yet managed to break the established order, with the exception of unrestrained fantasizing science fiction writers. As for the laws of thermodynamics, they very scrupulously defend the direction and orderliness of time. If we exaggerate this issue, then scientists imagine time as a bookcase that can collapse one day.
In the case of its chaotic filling, it will not be difficult to restore the order, you just need to put the books back. But if the books were sorted by color, then the task becomes more complicated. If we add size, year of publication, author's name and the like to this parameter, then folding the books will become a very difficult task. That is, if the time order is violated, according to fans of thermodynamics, it will be extremely difficult to restore it.
But it is not more difficult than to like this topic. Time flowed long before the birth of the first star. It will flow smoothly after the death of our galaxy, but what will happen if it stops? Is it possible? We are used to thinking that the Universe, like time, is infinite. When people say this word, they do not fully understand its meaning, since in our world everything has an end and a beginning, and a person simply has nothing to compare this unimaginable concept with.
Although one thing can give a distant understanding of finite infinity. Difficult? In fact, the example is extremely simple. This is a ball. If we look for its boundaries, then this is initially meaningless. Therefore, regarding the limitedness, it is infinite. But at the same time, its area will always have a finite value.
Perhaps the same is true for the space-time continuum. There are suggestions about the freezing of time, as an illustration of the last days of the Universe. One of the theories and Apocalypse agree that perhaps time will stop, and the endless series of moments will turn into one single one, frozen forever, like an old photo. It will last forever.
Everything that was supposed to happen to you will definitely happen many times. There will be no old age, no death. Just one endless moment. From a human point of view, this will be like immortality, enclosed in one time drop, which is eternal. The paradox is that a person will not even understand that time has stopped. And for now we can endlessly measure this incomprehensible value.
Because this is the only thing left for people. After all, time cannot be tasted, broken down into atoms, or studied under a microscope. We divide it into fragments, call them seconds and imagine that nothing can surprise us anymore. This resembles the failure of a first-grader who, having read the first syllable, believes that he has already grasped the essence of things. After watching the movie Arrival, I started thinking about time.
Not the linear time we usually experience, but other concepts of time. So I decided to research this and find out what an expert like Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks about the different types of time and came to the following conclusions. Neil notes. Before we became relativistic, our concept of time was something like, “We all live in the same ticking clock.
A second for you is the same as a second for me. That’s linear time.” Linear means that one interval is exactly the same length as another, and one follows another. Relativism showed us that there is no such thing as absolute time. Time is relative. So it can stretch for me relative to you.
So time has sort of multiple parallel speeds that it moves at, depending on the location of the one measuring and the location of the one moving and what states they are in. Now let's think about dimensions. In our time, we are trapped in the present, constantly moving from the past to the future, so we don't know about access to other points in our time slice.
It is assumed that you can move around your time slice with the same flexibility that you have when moving left and right, up and down, forward and backward. This means the first, second and third dimensions, and that time is the fourth. In this case, you can return to your own time slice. In these states, you are not dead, you are constantly dying.
You are not born, you are constantly being born. It is as if you are constantly being born. This is another interesting way to think about time. Now, what we do not know is precisely the themes that are touched upon in the film Arrival. If you join your own life at a different point in time, you have to ask yourself, is there any benefit to knowing what happened in the future?
You can go back from the future to the past, and maybe you'll take with you the knowledge of what's coming, because you've already experienced it. But if you go back from the present to the future, will you experience everything that you would have experienced without the travel? It's a good question, isn't it? Because if your timeline already exists, you can't change what you're going to experience. It's already predetermined.
But suppose you had the knowledge and the ability to change it. Then you'd have a completely different timeline to deal with. And it would become increasingly complex, like a fractal structure. What gets me about The Terminator is that he has to kill everyone who might be the mother of the person who's starting this whole mess.
That was the whole point. I was wondering, why don't they go back a little bit further in time? You could go back a little bit further, you just need to change one little thing, and everything would change after that. It wouldn't be as gory, but it wouldn't be as funny. But it actually brings us to an interesting concept that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Like, with Terminator.
It's the loop paradox, where the fact that they're going back in time is the root cause of everything. Now, who rewatched the movie somewhere in time? Yeah, a lot of people would say it's a girly movie, so they skipped it. Well, it was a romantic love story, it even has Christopher Reeve in it, actually. Some old lady comes up to him, gives him some kind of medallion and says, "Meet me in the past or something, okay?"
And he's a young guy, and he figures out how to go back in time and meet her. And now they're the same age and they're having a fling, and he gives her this little locket. Okay? Now she has a locket to give in the future. This is what's called the Jim particle in time travel. Now, this particle was never created.
It was neither created nor destroyed. It only exists in a time loop. So what is it? Is this considered something that we think should or shouldn't exist in the physical world, which of course we've become accustomed to? Where did it even come from? Did it just exist? Exactly. It just existed. This is his attempt to change the way things are and the way they move, and that's what makes everything happen.
And it's never going to end, so it's... It's like the example I gave, and it's like the Terminator. It's one loop that never ends, but you never get out of it. Well, in the case of somewhere in time, where the Jim bits are stuck in the loop forever, but the characters live on.
What The Terminator is about was these events that affected the entire world. So does the world come into being on the other side? My guess is no, because they affected the entire world, because it's stuck in the loop, and nothing continues. If it was some grandma who went back to meet someone, then the world would be contained... But we wouldn't say then, this is, of course, a bit speculative, but if...
So I'm Christopher Reef, I go back in time. Does that mean that everyone around me shouldn't be the same? Can they be different? Or are they stuck in the same loop as me? That wasn't the message of the movie. But it should have been. Those are the questions I want to know the answer to. So, what can we say about The Time Machine?
They dealt with this interesting phenomenon where his lover dies, she gets mugged or something. Killed in the park. That's why I have a time machine. I can fix that. And now she goes somewhere else but the crime scene, and then she gets, like, hit by a car and dies. He does it again. She dies every time. He realizes that some things are just meant to be.
But I was thinking about that, and I said why her death was more significant than the fact that she got mugged or whatever. It's an alterable event. Because it's changed, time for all these people, the robber's life is probably different too. The driver is different now too. Just to kill his lover.
Yeah, just to kill one person. The time machine is an interesting case. I always thought it was interesting how a time machine actually works. But when he's in it, he sees everything outside flashing past him. But I always imagined it from the perspective of someone just passing by. He just watches the dude sitting, you know, in the car, like, okay, this is boring.
Or would it be in an instant. So he's actually moving through time, rather than things just flashing past him? There's a moment where he flashes past that you would never even see. I mean, it would happen so fast. That's my interpretation. Because I thought it would be a certain place where he would kind of be stuck on that point on the Earth so that he wouldn't move.
But to us in the time machine, time, because it's relative, feels like it's moving. So, they wouldn't see it like that. But if the planet moved somewhere completely different, you'd just be in the middle of space. But if he went back exactly 30 years, then the Earth would be back where it was at that moment, right? So because he's going back less than that, he's in the middle of space.
And that's where the interesting problem is. Let's say that tachyon communication exists, so I can send a message back in time. And you're walking down the hallway, and you slip on a banana peel. When I first saw people, like, cartoon characters, slip on banana peels, I said, first of all, why is that peel just lying there, and second of all, are they that slippery? So I started throwing banana peels and trying to slip on them.
I couldn't, and then I realized you just put them on the inside. But when I flipped them over, I said, "Wow, that's really slippery." But if you throw a banana peel in the air, it's never going to land on the ground as an octopus. So you slip. And I say, "Oh, let me warn him."
And I text you 10 seconds ahead of time. You're walking down the hallway, and your phone vibrates. You take it out, and it says, "Watch out for banana peels." But now you're not looking where you're going and you slip on another cause that just so happens to be the root cause. But it's interesting because it's a butterfly effect. Where we've changed the timeline, from everything we know, we could be a ripple in a different universe than we were.
It's like people who say, If one thing hadn't happened to George Washington or Napoleon or Hitler, then the world would be different. I think, okay, I think you're overestimating that one thing, that one little incident. They're losing sight of the fact that certain forces are at work to push a culture, a civilization in a certain direction, can be inflexible to certain changes that you can make that you think will make a huge difference in the outcome.
If we hadn't accidentally discovered penicillin last year, then millions of people would have died by... No. You know, Betty Lee would have discovered penicillin a year later, so... So you're exaggerating that one detail and telling me that civilization would have been different.
I don't buy it. Civilization is much more robust than that, and if Hitler had been killed as a child, then no, probably not. The Germans were determined to have somebody take control out of hysteria. And maybe the consequences made Hitler, rather than Hitler creating the circumstances. That's why you're worried that the whole butterfly effect is going to somehow change course in that direction, rather than just change something minor, but in the same general sense.
Of all these things we've talked about, the butterfly effect seems the most realistic, whereas this is - it's not something we can really calculate, but we can say that stuff happens. Like there are always different changes that guys through history or through the present or the future. And I'll say, it wasn't this butterfly, it was another butterfly.
There was a headline in a journal of irreducible results once. This is the one where scientists want to take a day off from their day jobs and come up with some crazy scientific theory that turns out to be completely stupid, but which will be scientifically approved. And there was a headline that said, "We've captured the real butterfly that caused the hurricanes of the South."
I think in the end, I agree with Stephen Hawking that we will discover new laws of physics that will predict backwards time travel. And we don't know what that law is, or why it should exist. Everything we can imagine that allows it to be, completely obfuscates everything. You see the protesters on the street, you know their slogan. "What do we want? A time machine! When do we want it? Well, whatever, any time will be fine!"
So you could argue that if a time machine is invented sometime in the future, there is no evidence that it has ever shown up in our past. But that shouldn't stop us from thinking about it in funny stories and talking about life, in this corrected life. It's constantly being born, constantly living and constantly dying. I would actually get comfortable. And then.
It shows that your life is predetermined. Even if it's essentially being trapped in the present, moving from the past to the future, I have the illusion of freedom of choice, and I'm happy to live in that illusion in the knowledge that it's not. Thinking about a time machine, where everything comes down to something like predetermination or things that are predetermined on this path that you're following.
Time travel kind of makes everything seem like it's predetermined, and there's no way to deviate from the course of this path. Everything you do has been. "If I get into a time machine," everything has actually been leading up to this moment. The past self will then go and get into a time machine, which will keep happening forever.
Do you want to see with your own eyes the fall of Troy or the birth of life on Earth? Perhaps the mystery of the death of dinosaurs haunts you? Are you not interested in the past? Then it is worth traveling to the future and personally observe the agony of the Sun or take part in the construction of the Dyson sphere. Some time will pass, and most likely, these desires will move from the category of impossible to the cohort of quite probable. Or something will be able to prevent this.
Time travel is one of the fundamental aspirations of mankind. But will this dream destroy us when it finally comes true? Many imagine the pace of tourism as follows. A person sits down in a certain cabin or room, looks at the time menu with interest and selects the desired point B.
The trip takes place in comfort and without excesses. The tourist quickly gets to the desired location without experiencing any inconvenience. But this scenario, imposed on us by some filmmakers, is too utopian to be true. The thing is that there is such a thing as a time paradox. It is a complex of processes that is difficult to understand, which entails many problems and inconsistencies.
In essence, a time paradox significantly complicates travel, first of all, into the past, especially if the temponaut tries to change something there. The opinions of learned men are generally divided into two groups. Some believe that by penetrating into the past and performing some actions in it, the temponaut will irreversibly change the future. Others argue that this is impossible, because the cause-and-effect loop will not allow this to happen.
Nobody knows who to believe. But the topic is so exciting that humanity will never stop thinking and fantasizing about it until it itself goes on a time travel and tests the voiced theories personally. What dangers await temponauts on the way?
Without a protective traveler, time paradoxes await, repeatedly illustrated in fiction and famous films. Retroactive murder. This is the one that has become so boring, but at the same time the most understandable of all time paradoxes. Imagine that your closest relative, say, your grandfather, was a hardened dictator, mercilessly destroying entire Naturally, if the opportunity arises, you will want to get rid of him in order to correct the evil he has done.
In such a situation, two options are possible. If there is a law of timeline protection, which some physicists adhere to, then it will not allow anything like this to happen, since it will irreversibly disrupt the plans of the Universe. If there are many such worlds, then in one of them the temponaut who committed the murder of his own grandfather will simply disappear from the reality from which he came.
Remember how Marty McFly, a teenager of the 80s, got to 1955 and met his own mother, subsequently falling in love with him. He immediately began to disappear from family portraits. The time ruler simply erased the unnecessary link. Thus, the action of the dead grandfather paradox was shown quite clearly in the film "Back to the Future".
In fact, the Baron phenomenon serves as an illustration of the law of a closed time loop and is based on the assertion that everything will be exactly as it should be, and not otherwise. From the outside, it would look like this. A certain time traveler moves into the past to prevent an undesirable event or, conversely, to direct the life scenario in the right direction. But it is difficult for the human consciousness to perceive this as the norm, so an analogy with the famous baron, who independently pulled himself out of the swamp by his hair, was applied to the phenomenon.
In a more modern version, the "Time Loop" is mentioned in the movie "Interstellar", when the main character, NASA pilot Cooper, sent a warning message to humanity in the past straight from a black hole, and in our reality, gravitational signals were perceived as an otherworldly knock of the spirit of the bookshelf.
Groundhog Day in a new way The Time Loop is a remarkable thing to study. But when talking about this paradox, the nuances of the phenomenon itself and its patterns are discussed. And how does a temponaut feel, caught in a time trap? After all, his memory is not erased, and the volume of memories of the algorithms of interaction with reality accumulates daily.
How does the human consciousness cope with gigantic stress? How many events can a temponaut's memory accommodate? Remember Bill Murray's character from "Groundhog Day". At first, the unfortunate journalist was overcome by anxiety and fear, then euphoria from permissiveness, and later - quiet despair. There is also a more modern version of the interpretation of the "Time Loop", demonstrated in the sci-fi action movie "Edge of Tomorrow".
In the film, William Cage becomes a temporary prisoner for a while, daily going through the circle of samsara with variations that he himself introduces. Call Herodotus This is not only a favorite plot of science fiction works and films, which is based on the introduction of modern technology into the past, but also another rather dangerous paradox.
The fact is that no temponaut can predict the final result of their actions, not to mention how the sudden appearance of technologies that will be invented centuries later will affect an undeveloped civilization. Such unauthorized introduction will entail the birth of new deities and strange legends, the incitement of fratricidal wars, a total change in public consciousness, unrest and God knows what else.
The Terminator film series perfectly illustrates the consequences of this paradox. After all, it was the cyborg invasion in the 1980s that led to the dominance of Skynet, an artificial intelligence endowed with free will and capable of independent thought. It eventually became the global antagonist of humanity.
The above list demonstrates the main contradictions, the results of which make the cranium boil. But the questions do not end there. For example, how will a temponaut perceive the appearance of his own clone in the past or future? Will there be cognitive discomfort when trying to establish contact with his time double? After all, some people react even to their own twins with a feeling of increasing anxiety.
And what will happen when a person sees another self? And then, how will the traveler perceive the changed relatives and friends? Will he consider them complete strangers? It is also unclear what word forms to use to talk about traveling along the timeline. Many languages simply lack such linguistic functionality. And the last question.
Is there a multiverse in which all possible versions of reality exist, no matter how we change them? Or is our universe unique and unrepeatable? There are practically no answers to this waterfall of questions. In any case, we do not know them yet. One thing is clear. Games with time are extremely dangerous. And it is definitely impossible to calculate all the consequences even without offensive actions of tempo nafta, but we will try to practice guessing the future.
“This is how life flies,” our parents used to say in response to our surprise at the transience of something.
Before you can blink, you are already 40, from the same series. All of humanity is familiar with this effect, it is talked about in all countries of the world and in all languages. But those who talk about it have something in common - age. You will almost never hear such statements from people under 20. The older a person is, the more often he mentions the transience of time.
Alberto Einstein wrote that the concept of time is not absolute, but depends on where the observer is. The stronger the gravitational field acting on him, the faster time flows. Maybe this is the case, and Einstein already described everything in his theory of relativity? If you did not change your place of residence to something much closer to the black hole and did not move at a speed close to the speed of light, then this is not the case at all.
So maybe it is the effect of imitation, when someone once said something similar, and then everyone read it and started repeating it? It does not seem so, because people really feel it, even if it is a tribe of natives unfamiliar with our culture. The question is whether these feelings have a real basis, or they are just an illusion. Let's try to figure it out. Remember some period of your life, distinguished by many new events, meetings, observed phenomena.
For example, it could be a trip. Let it last only two or three weeks. Do you remember it well? Surely yes, and you can remember each day from memory. How quickly did these two weeks pass? Rewind two weeks back from the current moment. Of course, provided that nothing outstanding has happened recently.
Compare these two intervals, which one seems longer to you? Most will answer, the one where they traveled. If my last two weeks have passed in an ordinary, routine and unnoticeable way, that it is even difficult to remember some events by which one can mark days, then in the case when the amount of new things per unit of time exceeds the usual limit, when each next day or even hour is not like the previous one, such a period even seems like a separate life, you must agree.
According to new impressions and information that a person receives from the world, the brain, like anchors, counts the elapsed time. We can easily remember the date and even the hour of some important and memorable event in your life. And so we hardly distinguish between similar days, rushing by in an endless gray series, so quickly taking away our lives.
For a child, each subsequent day is filled with new events, meetings, forms of communication and activities. Unlike an adult, he is full of impressions from everything that life presents to him. After all, all this is new. And, of course, time goes slower for him than for most adults. And so the acceleration of time is associated with a change in its perception with age.
But it turns out that the novelty of events is not the only reason for this. What else is there? Let's remember or imagine how the brain of a six-year-old child evaluates the past year. For him, this is not only a multitude of amazing events, but also 20% of the sum of all his previous years, from 1 to 5. One year for him is a fifth of his entire life.
A fifth of his life is a significant period in subjective understanding, no matter how short his life itself is. The past year is a different matter for a 26-year-old. When he turns 25, one year is only 4% of all the years he has lived. Naturally, in terms of duration, this is not as significant and noticeable as for a six-year-old. The older a person is, the shorter each new year will seem to his brain relative to his past life.
This effect can manifest itself not only at a distance of many years. Let's remember the many stories from participants in serious car accidents, when at the moment of the accident the flow of time turned into slow-motion for them. Everything slowed down, and some even saw how each individual piece of glass of the broken windshield fell. Why does this happen? It's the same here.
After all, an accident is not just an unusual situation in which the brain needs to have time to evaluate and comprehend everything. This is a critical situation that threatens serious injuries and even death. At such a moment, it is necessary to collect all possible information about the surrounding conditions in a tiny amount of time and, based on it, make the right decision that will save a life. So a person begins to notice every detail at such moments, as if in slow motion.
And although the incident itself may last only a few seconds, it seems to him that minutes or even more have passed. Not to mention the fact that he remembers it for the rest of his life. How, if not to stop, then at least to slow down this inexorable passage of time, which begins to moo after 25, 30, 35 years? Objectively, we cannot do this, at least not yet.
But it is within our power to influence the factors of its subjective perception. There are many methods here, but their essence comes down to one. If you are already old enough, then you yourself need to bring the trajectory of your life to new turns. Do not shy away from the opportunity to gain new experience, develop in previously unknown directions.
Read interesting books and solve unusual problems to create new neural connections in the brain that will help you see the world from new angles and look at any situation from the side you wish. Travel, meet and communicate with new people. Try to diversify any routine operations with something. At least go to work by a new route. Start learning a language. Invent your own fairy tale for the children.
Or organize an evening homemade performance. There are many big and small ways to make life brighter. There are many ways, both expensive and free, to slow down this team, in which time inevitably carries us into the future. And in conclusion of this video, I would like to recall a quote, the authorship of which is often attributed to the famous comedian George Carlin or even the Dalai Lama "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
In fact, this was said in one of his letters by former pastor Bob Murhette. And I hope you now see why this is really so. Sleep is a natural physiological state that some insects, fish, birds and mammals, including humans, periodically enter into.
The cyclical nature of the process occurs on average once a day and is regulated by circadian rhythms. Sleep is one of the basic needs of the body, which cannot be replenished with anything other than quality rest. Moreover, some neurophysiologists and somnologists believe that lack of sleep is an irreparable loss, like the irreversible death of nerve cells.
In the history of the development of human civilization, attempts to deliberately upset the biological clock of the body have been repeatedly recorded. This was done for various purposes. For example, torture using sleep deprivation was popular among the punishers in the dungeons of the NKVD, the executioners of the infamous Guantanamo Bay base, and also during the Vietnam War.
A person was simply not given the opportunity to sleep for many days. To do this, the unfortunate person was either interrogated around the clock, or tied to a chair and not allowed to change position. As a result, after using such methods, many went crazy. But there were cases when a citizen deliberately went on many days of insomnia in order to become famous, entering the Guinness Book of Records.
Once, a 17-year-old American teenager managed to do this by staying awake for 11 days in a row. But the torture of his own body did not pass without a trace. In the last two days of insomnia, the guy even lost the ability to speak. This once again proves how important daily full sleep is for a person.
And the main thing is that there are no failures in the natural rhythms. But what if you try to influence the process from the outside and organize it on a global scale? Fortunately, there is no phenomenon that would make all people on the planet fall asleep at the same time and wake up strictly on time. If something like this happened, then such a scenario would not bring anything good to the planet and its inhabitants.
Tell me, would you like it if, despite the changed circumstances or plans, you, like a switch, turned off at the same time every day? And it does not matter where you are - at a major event, in the process of a complex operation, behind the wheel of a car or at the helm of an airplane. And at the same time, all the inhabitants of the Earth, without exception, would fall asleep.
Reflecting on this question, one can see many disadvantages, because the global regime in some cases is capable of causing untold harm. Everyone knows that our planet is divided into 24 time zones. Those who often make intercontinental flights know this very well. But what will such a distinction turn into if a global sleep regime is introduced?
If a person in Yakutsk or on the island of Palau falls asleep at 24 o'clock, this is normal. But what will happen at the same time on the other side of the globe? It's simple. Residents of Costa Rica or San Salvador will fall into the arms of Morpheus not at 12 o'clock at night, but at 9 o'clock in the morning. And they will conscientiously sleep the required 8 hours, that is, almost the entire daylight hours, completely confusing the circadian rhythms oriented to the day-night algorithm.
Some will object and say that it is possible to adapt to daytime sleep. People working the night shift know this firsthand. But the global schedule will help freelancers located in different parts of the world work more efficiently. After all, differences in modes significantly hinder high-quality communication.
Now the production schedule will be equalized and will allow all links in the work chain to coordinate their activities in a timely manner. But that's probably where the benefits end. Some people think that the advantages of a universal sleep-wake regime include the planet's rest from human vanity and harmful activity. But that's not quite true.
Yes, there will be an eight-hour daily break, but after it, when everyone wakes up at the same time, resource consumption will skyrocket, increasing the load on power grids and activating the use of other benefits of civilization. The global regime also causes serious damage to industries that require natural sunlight for their proper development. Logging bases, landscape design areas, and the agricultural sector.
On reflection, the only advantage mentioned - hypothetical universal efficiency - is also nothing more than fiction. This can be explained simply. Someone may adapt to the changed biorhythms. But most people, at least in the first generation, will not be able to do this, therefore their efficiency will be seriously reduced.
Constant daytime sleep contradicts natural biorhythms, and therefore over time this will lead to a decrease in cognitive abilities, memory impairment, depletion of immunity, the appearance of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, organic depression, cardiovascular diseases. Lack of sunlight will inevitably affect that part of the planet's population that will mainly sleep during the day. This will lead to a sharp drop in serotonin in the blood and an increase in the number of suicides, a slowdown in brain activity, mass osteoporosis due to a lack of vitamin A and D.
Women will stop the process of evolution, which will lead to infertility. This is confirmed by studies conducted in the Arctic regions. In general, people who are deprived of the usual period of night sleep, transferred to other hours of the day, will literally become like zombies.
They will be prone to fainting, persistent memory lapses, visual and auditory hallucinations, delirium similar to the clouding of consciousness in chronic alcoholics, temporary blindness, psychosis and paranoid states. That is, the majority of the earthly community will soon after the forced introduction of a universal sleep regime will begin to resemble characters from post-apocalyptic films like "I Am Legend", "World War Z" or "Evil Dead".
The fact that no one has yet taken it upon themselves to turn us on and off at a certain time is very encouraging. After all, thanks to this, we can consider ourselves masters of our own lives. Lovers are free to sit up until the morning, dreamily gazing at the stars. Old people can greet the dawns every day, of which they have fewer and fewer, and a poet is free to seek inspiration in the breath of the night.
Let us appreciate life in all its diversity and rejoice in the reasonable laws of nature that allow humanity to remain in excellent shape.
Time is an absolute quantity. This is the opinion of the overwhelming majority of physicists. But can we trust this knowledge? Is it reliable? Let's try to understand this confusing issue. Since childhood, we have been accustomed to dividing hours into minutes, which in turn were divided into seconds. Months were added up into years and decades. It seems to us that there are trees, cars, people, a starry sky and nothing else remarkable around the house.
But all this slowly and smoothly floats along the invisible eternal river of time. But is it eternal? When will the end of time come? And what will happen after this unthinkable event? Many writers have tried to predict what might happen if we stop, slow down or reverse the laws of time. The work called "The Clock That Went Backwards" by Edward Mitchell, based on which Hollywood created a film about the unfortunate Benjamin Button, who was born an old man and died as a baby, touches on the idea of what would happen if people could influence time.
The theme was continued by H. G. Wells in his famous novel "The Time Machine" and the story "The New Accelerator". Obviously, nothing good came of it, since human knowledge of time is laughably meager.
But even in the wildest dreams and fantasies, writers did not dare to stop time itself, but only created in their imagination machines traveling along the space-time continuum, or incredible potions that dull the sense of time, and in fact deceive the brain. According to the idea of classical physics, time flows evenly and eternally. Only the movement of objects changes in the sense of their acceleration or deceleration. The time scale is represented as a coordinate axis with points-moments.
People consistently pass from one point to another during their short lives. And no one has yet managed to break the established order, with the exception of unrestrained fantasizing science fiction writers. As for the laws of thermodynamics, they very scrupulously defend the direction and orderliness of time. If we exaggerate this issue, then scientists imagine time as a bookcase that can collapse one day.
In the case of its chaotic filling, it will not be difficult to restore the order, you just need to put the books back. But if the books were sorted by color, then the task becomes more complicated. If we add size, year of publication, author's name and the like to this parameter, then folding the books will become a very difficult task. That is, if the time order is violated, according to fans of thermodynamics, it will be extremely difficult to restore it.
But it is not more difficult than to like this topic. Time flowed long before the birth of the first star. It will flow smoothly after the death of our galaxy, but what will happen if it stops? Is it possible? We are used to thinking that the Universe, like time, is infinite. When people say this word, they do not fully understand its meaning, since in our world everything has an end and a beginning, and a person simply has nothing to compare this unimaginable concept with.
Although one thing can give a distant understanding of finite infinity. Difficult? In fact, the example is extremely simple. This is a ball. If we look for its boundaries, then this is initially meaningless. Therefore, regarding the limitedness, it is infinite. But at the same time, its area will always have a finite value.
Perhaps the same is true for the space-time continuum. There are suggestions about the freezing of time, as an illustration of the last days of the Universe. One of the theories and Apocalypse agree that perhaps time will stop, and the endless series of moments will turn into one single one, frozen forever, like an old photo. It will last forever.
Everything that was supposed to happen to you will definitely happen many times. There will be no old age, no death. Just one endless moment. From a human point of view, this will be like immortality, enclosed in one time drop, which is eternal. The paradox is that a person will not even understand that time has stopped. And for now we can endlessly measure this incomprehensible value.
Because this is the only thing left for people. After all, time cannot be tasted, broken down into atoms, or studied under a microscope. We divide it into fragments, call them seconds and imagine that nothing can surprise us anymore. This resembles the failure of a first-grader who, having read the first syllable, believes that he has already grasped the essence of things. After watching the movie Arrival, I started thinking about time.
Not the linear time we usually experience, but other concepts of time. So I decided to research this and find out what an expert like Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks about the different types of time and came to the following conclusions. Neil notes. Before we became relativistic, our concept of time was something like, “We all live in the same ticking clock.
A second for you is the same as a second for me. That’s linear time.” Linear means that one interval is exactly the same length as another, and one follows another. Relativism showed us that there is no such thing as absolute time. Time is relative. So it can stretch for me relative to you.
So time has sort of multiple parallel speeds that it moves at, depending on the location of the one measuring and the location of the one moving and what states they are in. Now let's think about dimensions. In our time, we are trapped in the present, constantly moving from the past to the future, so we don't know about access to other points in our time slice.
It is assumed that you can move around your time slice with the same flexibility that you have when moving left and right, up and down, forward and backward. This means the first, second and third dimensions, and that time is the fourth. In this case, you can return to your own time slice. In these states, you are not dead, you are constantly dying.
You are not born, you are constantly being born. It is as if you are constantly being born. This is another interesting way to think about time. Now, what we do not know is precisely the themes that are touched upon in the film Arrival. If you join your own life at a different point in time, you have to ask yourself, is there any benefit to knowing what happened in the future?
You can go back from the future to the past, and maybe you'll take with you the knowledge of what's coming, because you've already experienced it. But if you go back from the present to the future, will you experience everything that you would have experienced without the travel? It's a good question, isn't it? Because if your timeline already exists, you can't change what you're going to experience. It's already predetermined.
But suppose you had the knowledge and the ability to change it. Then you'd have a completely different timeline to deal with. And it would become increasingly complex, like a fractal structure. What gets me about The Terminator is that he has to kill everyone who might be the mother of the person who's starting this whole mess.
That was the whole point. I was wondering, why don't they go back a little bit further in time? You could go back a little bit further, you just need to change one little thing, and everything would change after that. It wouldn't be as gory, but it wouldn't be as funny. But it actually brings us to an interesting concept that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Like, with Terminator.
It's the loop paradox, where the fact that they're going back in time is the root cause of everything. Now, who rewatched the movie somewhere in time? Yeah, a lot of people would say it's a girly movie, so they skipped it. Well, it was a romantic love story, it even has Christopher Reeve in it, actually. Some old lady comes up to him, gives him some kind of medallion and says, "Meet me in the past or something, okay?"
And he's a young guy, and he figures out how to go back in time and meet her. And now they're the same age and they're having a fling, and he gives her this little locket. Okay? Now she has a locket to give in the future. This is what's called the Jim particle in time travel. Now, this particle was never created.
It was neither created nor destroyed. It only exists in a time loop. So what is it? Is this considered something that we think should or shouldn't exist in the physical world, which of course we've become accustomed to? Where did it even come from? Did it just exist? Exactly. It just existed. This is his attempt to change the way things are and the way they move, and that's what makes everything happen.
And it's never going to end, so it's... It's like the example I gave, and it's like the Terminator. It's one loop that never ends, but you never get out of it. Well, in the case of somewhere in time, where the Jim bits are stuck in the loop forever, but the characters live on.
What The Terminator is about was these events that affected the entire world. So does the world come into being on the other side? My guess is no, because they affected the entire world, because it's stuck in the loop, and nothing continues. If it was some grandma who went back to meet someone, then the world would be contained... But we wouldn't say then, this is, of course, a bit speculative, but if...
So I'm Christopher Reef, I go back in time. Does that mean that everyone around me shouldn't be the same? Can they be different? Or are they stuck in the same loop as me? That wasn't the message of the movie. But it should have been. Those are the questions I want to know the answer to. So, what can we say about The Time Machine?
They dealt with this interesting phenomenon where his lover dies, she gets mugged or something. Killed in the park. That's why I have a time machine. I can fix that. And now she goes somewhere else but the crime scene, and then she gets, like, hit by a car and dies. He does it again. She dies every time. He realizes that some things are just meant to be.
But I was thinking about that, and I said why her death was more significant than the fact that she got mugged or whatever. It's an alterable event. Because it's changed, time for all these people, the robber's life is probably different too. The driver is different now too. Just to kill his lover.
Yeah, just to kill one person. The time machine is an interesting case. I always thought it was interesting how a time machine actually works. But when he's in it, he sees everything outside flashing past him. But I always imagined it from the perspective of someone just passing by. He just watches the dude sitting, you know, in the car, like, okay, this is boring.
Or would it be in an instant. So he's actually moving through time, rather than things just flashing past him? There's a moment where he flashes past that you would never even see. I mean, it would happen so fast. That's my interpretation. Because I thought it would be a certain place where he would kind of be stuck on that point on the Earth so that he wouldn't move.
But to us in the time machine, time, because it's relative, feels like it's moving. So, they wouldn't see it like that. But if the planet moved somewhere completely different, you'd just be in the middle of space. But if he went back exactly 30 years, then the Earth would be back where it was at that moment, right? So because he's going back less than that, he's in the middle of space.
And that's where the interesting problem is. Let's say that tachyon communication exists, so I can send a message back in time. And you're walking down the hallway, and you slip on a banana peel. When I first saw people, like, cartoon characters, slip on banana peels, I said, first of all, why is that peel just lying there, and second of all, are they that slippery? So I started throwing banana peels and trying to slip on them.
I couldn't, and then I realized you just put them on the inside. But when I flipped them over, I said, "Wow, that's really slippery." But if you throw a banana peel in the air, it's never going to land on the ground as an octopus. So you slip. And I say, "Oh, let me warn him."
And I text you 10 seconds ahead of time. You're walking down the hallway, and your phone vibrates. You take it out, and it says, "Watch out for banana peels." But now you're not looking where you're going and you slip on another cause that just so happens to be the root cause. But it's interesting because it's a butterfly effect. Where we've changed the timeline, from everything we know, we could be a ripple in a different universe than we were.
It's like people who say, If one thing hadn't happened to George Washington or Napoleon or Hitler, then the world would be different. I think, okay, I think you're overestimating that one thing, that one little incident. They're losing sight of the fact that certain forces are at work to push a culture, a civilization in a certain direction, can be inflexible to certain changes that you can make that you think will make a huge difference in the outcome.
If we hadn't accidentally discovered penicillin last year, then millions of people would have died by... No. You know, Betty Lee would have discovered penicillin a year later, so... So you're exaggerating that one detail and telling me that civilization would have been different.
I don't buy it. Civilization is much more robust than that, and if Hitler had been killed as a child, then no, probably not. The Germans were determined to have somebody take control out of hysteria. And maybe the consequences made Hitler, rather than Hitler creating the circumstances. That's why you're worried that the whole butterfly effect is going to somehow change course in that direction, rather than just change something minor, but in the same general sense.
Of all these things we've talked about, the butterfly effect seems the most realistic, whereas this is - it's not something we can really calculate, but we can say that stuff happens. Like there are always different changes that guys through history or through the present or the future. And I'll say, it wasn't this butterfly, it was another butterfly.
There was a headline in a journal of irreducible results once. This is the one where scientists want to take a day off from their day jobs and come up with some crazy scientific theory that turns out to be completely stupid, but which will be scientifically approved. And there was a headline that said, "We've captured the real butterfly that caused the hurricanes of the South."
I think in the end, I agree with Stephen Hawking that we will discover new laws of physics that will predict backwards time travel. And we don't know what that law is, or why it should exist. Everything we can imagine that allows it to be, completely obfuscates everything. You see the protesters on the street, you know their slogan. "What do we want? A time machine! When do we want it? Well, whatever, any time will be fine!"
So you could argue that if a time machine is invented sometime in the future, there is no evidence that it has ever shown up in our past. But that shouldn't stop us from thinking about it in funny stories and talking about life, in this corrected life. It's constantly being born, constantly living and constantly dying. I would actually get comfortable. And then.
It shows that your life is predetermined. Even if it's essentially being trapped in the present, moving from the past to the future, I have the illusion of freedom of choice, and I'm happy to live in that illusion in the knowledge that it's not. Thinking about a time machine, where everything comes down to something like predetermination or things that are predetermined on this path that you're following.
Time travel kind of makes everything seem like it's predetermined, and there's no way to deviate from the course of this path. Everything you do has been. "If I get into a time machine," everything has actually been leading up to this moment. The past self will then go and get into a time machine, which will keep happening forever.
Do you want to see with your own eyes the fall of Troy or the birth of life on Earth? Perhaps the mystery of the death of dinosaurs haunts you? Are you not interested in the past? Then it is worth traveling to the future and personally observe the agony of the Sun or take part in the construction of the Dyson sphere. Some time will pass, and most likely, these desires will move from the category of impossible to the cohort of quite probable. Or something will be able to prevent this.
Time travel is one of the fundamental aspirations of mankind. But will this dream destroy us when it finally comes true? Many imagine the pace of tourism as follows. A person sits down in a certain cabin or room, looks at the time menu with interest and selects the desired point B.
The trip takes place in comfort and without excesses. The tourist quickly gets to the desired location without experiencing any inconvenience. But this scenario, imposed on us by some filmmakers, is too utopian to be true. The thing is that there is such a thing as a time paradox. It is a complex of processes that is difficult to understand, which entails many problems and inconsistencies.
In essence, a time paradox significantly complicates travel, first of all, into the past, especially if the temponaut tries to change something there. The opinions of learned men are generally divided into two groups. Some believe that by penetrating into the past and performing some actions in it, the temponaut will irreversibly change the future. Others argue that this is impossible, because the cause-and-effect loop will not allow this to happen.
Nobody knows who to believe. But the topic is so exciting that humanity will never stop thinking and fantasizing about it until it itself goes on a time travel and tests the voiced theories personally. What dangers await temponauts on the way?
Without a protective traveler, time paradoxes await, repeatedly illustrated in fiction and famous films. Retroactive murder. This is the one that has become so boring, but at the same time the most understandable of all time paradoxes. Imagine that your closest relative, say, your grandfather, was a hardened dictator, mercilessly destroying entire Naturally, if the opportunity arises, you will want to get rid of him in order to correct the evil he has done.
In such a situation, two options are possible. If there is a law of timeline protection, which some physicists adhere to, then it will not allow anything like this to happen, since it will irreversibly disrupt the plans of the Universe. If there are many such worlds, then in one of them the temponaut who committed the murder of his own grandfather will simply disappear from the reality from which he came.
Remember how Marty McFly, a teenager of the 80s, got to 1955 and met his own mother, subsequently falling in love with him. He immediately began to disappear from family portraits. The time ruler simply erased the unnecessary link. Thus, the action of the dead grandfather paradox was shown quite clearly in the film "Back to the Future".
In fact, the Baron phenomenon serves as an illustration of the law of a closed time loop and is based on the assertion that everything will be exactly as it should be, and not otherwise. From the outside, it would look like this. A certain time traveler moves into the past to prevent an undesirable event or, conversely, to direct the life scenario in the right direction. But it is difficult for the human consciousness to perceive this as the norm, so an analogy with the famous baron, who independently pulled himself out of the swamp by his hair, was applied to the phenomenon.
In a more modern version, the "Time Loop" is mentioned in the movie "Interstellar", when the main character, NASA pilot Cooper, sent a warning message to humanity in the past straight from a black hole, and in our reality, gravitational signals were perceived as an otherworldly knock of the spirit of the bookshelf.
Groundhog Day in a new way The Time Loop is a remarkable thing to study. But when talking about this paradox, the nuances of the phenomenon itself and its patterns are discussed. And how does a temponaut feel, caught in a time trap? After all, his memory is not erased, and the volume of memories of the algorithms of interaction with reality accumulates daily.
How does the human consciousness cope with gigantic stress? How many events can a temponaut's memory accommodate? Remember Bill Murray's character from "Groundhog Day". At first, the unfortunate journalist was overcome by anxiety and fear, then euphoria from permissiveness, and later - quiet despair. There is also a more modern version of the interpretation of the "Time Loop", demonstrated in the sci-fi action movie "Edge of Tomorrow".
In the film, William Cage becomes a temporary prisoner for a while, daily going through the circle of samsara with variations that he himself introduces. Call Herodotus This is not only a favorite plot of science fiction works and films, which is based on the introduction of modern technology into the past, but also another rather dangerous paradox.
The fact is that no temponaut can predict the final result of their actions, not to mention how the sudden appearance of technologies that will be invented centuries later will affect an undeveloped civilization. Such unauthorized introduction will entail the birth of new deities and strange legends, the incitement of fratricidal wars, a total change in public consciousness, unrest and God knows what else.
The Terminator film series perfectly illustrates the consequences of this paradox. After all, it was the cyborg invasion in the 1980s that led to the dominance of Skynet, an artificial intelligence endowed with free will and capable of independent thought. It eventually became the global antagonist of humanity.
The above list demonstrates the main contradictions, the results of which make the cranium boil. But the questions do not end there. For example, how will a temponaut perceive the appearance of his own clone in the past or future? Will there be cognitive discomfort when trying to establish contact with his time double? After all, some people react even to their own twins with a feeling of increasing anxiety.
And what will happen when a person sees another self? And then, how will the traveler perceive the changed relatives and friends? Will he consider them complete strangers? It is also unclear what word forms to use to talk about traveling along the timeline. Many languages simply lack such linguistic functionality. And the last question.
Is there a multiverse in which all possible versions of reality exist, no matter how we change them? Or is our universe unique and unrepeatable? There are practically no answers to this waterfall of questions. In any case, we do not know them yet. One thing is clear. Games with time are extremely dangerous. And it is definitely impossible to calculate all the consequences even without offensive actions of tempo nafta, but we will try to practice guessing the future.
“This is how life flies,” our parents used to say in response to our surprise at the transience of something.
Before you can blink, you are already 40, from the same series. All of humanity is familiar with this effect, it is talked about in all countries of the world and in all languages. But those who talk about it have something in common - age. You will almost never hear such statements from people under 20. The older a person is, the more often he mentions the transience of time.
Alberto Einstein wrote that the concept of time is not absolute, but depends on where the observer is. The stronger the gravitational field acting on him, the faster time flows. Maybe this is the case, and Einstein already described everything in his theory of relativity? If you did not change your place of residence to something much closer to the black hole and did not move at a speed close to the speed of light, then this is not the case at all.
So maybe it is the effect of imitation, when someone once said something similar, and then everyone read it and started repeating it? It does not seem so, because people really feel it, even if it is a tribe of natives unfamiliar with our culture. The question is whether these feelings have a real basis, or they are just an illusion. Let's try to figure it out. Remember some period of your life, distinguished by many new events, meetings, observed phenomena.
For example, it could be a trip. Let it last only two or three weeks. Do you remember it well? Surely yes, and you can remember each day from memory. How quickly did these two weeks pass? Rewind two weeks back from the current moment. Of course, provided that nothing outstanding has happened recently.
Compare these two intervals, which one seems longer to you? Most will answer, the one where they traveled. If my last two weeks have passed in an ordinary, routine and unnoticeable way, that it is even difficult to remember some events by which one can mark days, then in the case when the amount of new things per unit of time exceeds the usual limit, when each next day or even hour is not like the previous one, such a period even seems like a separate life, you must agree.
According to new impressions and information that a person receives from the world, the brain, like anchors, counts the elapsed time. We can easily remember the date and even the hour of some important and memorable event in your life. And so we hardly distinguish between similar days, rushing by in an endless gray series, so quickly taking away our lives.
For a child, each subsequent day is filled with new events, meetings, forms of communication and activities. Unlike an adult, he is full of impressions from everything that life presents to him. After all, all this is new. And, of course, time goes slower for him than for most adults. And so the acceleration of time is associated with a change in its perception with age.
But it turns out that the novelty of events is not the only reason for this. What else is there? Let's remember or imagine how the brain of a six-year-old child evaluates the past year. For him, this is not only a multitude of amazing events, but also 20% of the sum of all his previous years, from 1 to 5. One year for him is a fifth of his entire life.
A fifth of his life is a significant period in subjective understanding, no matter how short his life itself is. The past year is a different matter for a 26-year-old. When he turns 25, one year is only 4% of all the years he has lived. Naturally, in terms of duration, this is not as significant and noticeable as for a six-year-old. The older a person is, the shorter each new year will seem to his brain relative to his past life.
This effect can manifest itself not only at a distance of many years. Let's remember the many stories from participants in serious car accidents, when at the moment of the accident the flow of time turned into slow-motion for them. Everything slowed down, and some even saw how each individual piece of glass of the broken windshield fell. Why does this happen? It's the same here.
After all, an accident is not just an unusual situation in which the brain needs to have time to evaluate and comprehend everything. This is a critical situation that threatens serious injuries and even death. At such a moment, it is necessary to collect all possible information about the surrounding conditions in a tiny amount of time and, based on it, make the right decision that will save a life. So a person begins to notice every detail at such moments, as if in slow motion.
And although the incident itself may last only a few seconds, it seems to him that minutes or even more have passed. Not to mention the fact that he remembers it for the rest of his life. How, if not to stop, then at least to slow down this inexorable passage of time, which begins to moo after 25, 30, 35 years? Objectively, we cannot do this, at least not yet.
But it is within our power to influence the factors of its subjective perception. There are many methods here, but their essence comes down to one. If you are already old enough, then you yourself need to bring the trajectory of your life to new turns. Do not shy away from the opportunity to gain new experience, develop in previously unknown directions.
Read interesting books and solve unusual problems to create new neural connections in the brain that will help you see the world from new angles and look at any situation from the side you wish. Travel, meet and communicate with new people. Try to diversify any routine operations with something. At least go to work by a new route. Start learning a language. Invent your own fairy tale for the children.
Or organize an evening homemade performance. There are many big and small ways to make life brighter. There are many ways, both expensive and free, to slow down this team, in which time inevitably carries us into the future. And in conclusion of this video, I would like to recall a quote, the authorship of which is often attributed to the famous comedian George Carlin or even the Dalai Lama "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
In fact, this was said in one of his letters by former pastor Bob Murhette. And I hope you now see why this is really so. Sleep is a natural physiological state that some insects, fish, birds and mammals, including humans, periodically enter into.
The cyclical nature of the process occurs on average once a day and is regulated by circadian rhythms. Sleep is one of the basic needs of the body, which cannot be replenished with anything other than quality rest. Moreover, some neurophysiologists and somnologists believe that lack of sleep is an irreparable loss, like the irreversible death of nerve cells.
In the history of the development of human civilization, attempts to deliberately upset the biological clock of the body have been repeatedly recorded. This was done for various purposes. For example, torture using sleep deprivation was popular among the punishers in the dungeons of the NKVD, the executioners of the infamous Guantanamo Bay base, and also during the Vietnam War.
A person was simply not given the opportunity to sleep for many days. To do this, the unfortunate person was either interrogated around the clock, or tied to a chair and not allowed to change position. As a result, after using such methods, many went crazy. But there were cases when a citizen deliberately went on many days of insomnia in order to become famous, entering the Guinness Book of Records.
Once, a 17-year-old American teenager managed to do this by staying awake for 11 days in a row. But the torture of his own body did not pass without a trace. In the last two days of insomnia, the guy even lost the ability to speak. This once again proves how important daily full sleep is for a person.
And the main thing is that there are no failures in the natural rhythms. But what if you try to influence the process from the outside and organize it on a global scale? Fortunately, there is no phenomenon that would make all people on the planet fall asleep at the same time and wake up strictly on time. If something like this happened, then such a scenario would not bring anything good to the planet and its inhabitants.
Tell me, would you like it if, despite the changed circumstances or plans, you, like a switch, turned off at the same time every day? And it does not matter where you are - at a major event, in the process of a complex operation, behind the wheel of a car or at the helm of an airplane. And at the same time, all the inhabitants of the Earth, without exception, would fall asleep.
Reflecting on this question, one can see many disadvantages, because the global regime in some cases is capable of causing untold harm. Everyone knows that our planet is divided into 24 time zones. Those who often make intercontinental flights know this very well. But what will such a distinction turn into if a global sleep regime is introduced?
If a person in Yakutsk or on the island of Palau falls asleep at 24 o'clock, this is normal. But what will happen at the same time on the other side of the globe? It's simple. Residents of Costa Rica or San Salvador will fall into the arms of Morpheus not at 12 o'clock at night, but at 9 o'clock in the morning. And they will conscientiously sleep the required 8 hours, that is, almost the entire daylight hours, completely confusing the circadian rhythms oriented to the day-night algorithm.
Some will object and say that it is possible to adapt to daytime sleep. People working the night shift know this firsthand. But the global schedule will help freelancers located in different parts of the world work more efficiently. After all, differences in modes significantly hinder high-quality communication.
Now the production schedule will be equalized and will allow all links in the work chain to coordinate their activities in a timely manner. But that's probably where the benefits end. Some people think that the advantages of a universal sleep-wake regime include the planet's rest from human vanity and harmful activity. But that's not quite true.
Yes, there will be an eight-hour daily break, but after it, when everyone wakes up at the same time, resource consumption will skyrocket, increasing the load on power grids and activating the use of other benefits of civilization. The global regime also causes serious damage to industries that require natural sunlight for their proper development. Logging bases, landscape design areas, and the agricultural sector.
On reflection, the only advantage mentioned - hypothetical universal efficiency - is also nothing more than fiction. This can be explained simply. Someone may adapt to the changed biorhythms. But most people, at least in the first generation, will not be able to do this, therefore their efficiency will be seriously reduced.
Constant daytime sleep contradicts natural biorhythms, and therefore over time this will lead to a decrease in cognitive abilities, memory impairment, depletion of immunity, the appearance of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, organic depression, cardiovascular diseases. Lack of sunlight will inevitably affect that part of the planet's population that will mainly sleep during the day. This will lead to a sharp drop in serotonin in the blood and an increase in the number of suicides, a slowdown in brain activity, mass osteoporosis due to a lack of vitamin A and D.
Women will stop the process of evolution, which will lead to infertility. This is confirmed by studies conducted in the Arctic regions. In general, people who are deprived of the usual period of night sleep, transferred to other hours of the day, will literally become like zombies.
They will be prone to fainting, persistent memory lapses, visual and auditory hallucinations, delirium similar to the clouding of consciousness in chronic alcoholics, temporary blindness, psychosis and paranoid states. That is, the majority of the earthly community will soon after the forced introduction of a universal sleep regime will begin to resemble characters from post-apocalyptic films like "I Am Legend", "World War Z" or "Evil Dead".
The fact that no one has yet taken it upon themselves to turn us on and off at a certain time is very encouraging. After all, thanks to this, we can consider ourselves masters of our own lives. Lovers are free to sit up until the morning, dreamily gazing at the stars. Old people can greet the dawns every day, of which they have fewer and fewer, and a poet is free to seek inspiration in the breath of the night.
Let us appreciate life in all its diversity and rejoice in the reasonable laws of nature that allow humanity to remain in excellent shape.
