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This goes to tal ly against com mon sense. But in this in stance it is com mon sense that is wrong. Our men tal
mod els of re al i ty have been de rived from a life tim e’s ex pe ri ence of a world where ve loc i ties are far be low
the speed of light. At speeds close to that of light, re al i ty is very dif fer ent. 140

Einstein showed that what we re gard as space and time are ac tu al ly part of a space-time whole. The-
refore, time and space are di rect ly cre at ed as per cep tions and be come part of a world that is ex pe ri enced
rel a tive ly. The per cep tions of time and space are nec es sa ry to form an im age of the world in the mind.

Yet when we claim that these rep re sent the true re al i ty, we are mis tak en, because we can nev er have di -
rect ex pe ri ence of the true con cept of space out side.
Fred Alan Wolf makes the fol low ing com ment:

According to Einstein’s the o ry of gen er al rel a tiv i ty, mat ter can not ex ist in de pend ent of space and time. If any
one of the three—mat ter, space, or time—is ab sent, they all are. Space is nec es sa ry in or der for mat ter to ex -

ist; mat ter is nec es sa ry in or der for time to ex ist; and time is nec es sa ry in or der for space to ex ist. They are
co de pend ent.

So, if time is just some form of a dream, an il lu sion, as many phi los o phers have spec u lat ed, then so are space
and mat ter. Yet from the stand ard or Copenhagen in ter pre ta tion of quan tum phys ics, we un der stand that
mat ter can not ex ist with out an ob serv er of mat ter. 141

The fact that mat ter can be per ceived on ly through our sens es and in oth er words, is a shad ow en ti -
ty, again does away with the con cept of space as a ma te ri al con cept. We per ceive space as out side us,

but it is to tal ly in side the brain when we remember any place. In fact, when look ing at and con sid er ing
some where we im ag ine to lie out side us, the con cept of space again aris es sole ly in side the brain. The
room we im ag ine to be stand ing in is an il lu sion form ing in side our brain, a wak ing dream.
Peter Russell sum ma ri zes this mode of per cep tion:

Imagine a police officer on a motorbike catching up to a speeding car.

How can the story of the po-
lice officer be so different to
yours, as you watched from
the pavement?
In Newton's The reason is that time slowed
view, the dri- down for the officer.
ver of the car
will appear
stationary If you watch this scene from the
from the po- pavement, both will appear to be
lice officer’s moving very fast.
perspective.

Let us now change the car for light rays.

According to
According to Einstein, how-
New-ton, time ever, time
If the police officer moved is uniform in varies. As you
at a speed close to that of the entire uni- accelerate, so
light, you could see him verse. A sec- time moves
approach at almost light ond on Mars more slowly.
speed. But when you is the same A second on
asked him later, he would as one on Earth is not
say that no matter how Earth. the same as a
much he accelerated, the second any-
light beam still moved at where in
the usual speed of light. space.

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