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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

therefore, completely relative. In reality, we never can know how time
flows—or even whether it flows or not! This is because time is not an
absolute fact, but only a form of perception.
That time is a perception is also verified by Albert Einstein in his
Theory of General Relativity. In his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein,
Lincoln Barnett writes:

Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute time—of
a steady, unvarying inexorable universal time flow, streaming from the infinite
past to the infinite future. Much of the obscurity that has surrounded the
Theory of Relativity stems from man's reluctance to recognize that sense of
time, like sense of color, is a form of perception. Just as space is simply a
possible order of material objects, so time is simply a possible order of events.
The subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words. "The
experiences of an individual," he says, "appear to us arranged in a series of
events; in this series the single events which we remember appear to be
ordered according to the criterion of 'earlier' and 'later'. There exists, therefore,
for the individual, an I-time, or subjective time. This in itself is not measurable.
I can, indeed, associate numbers with the events, in such a way that a greater
number is associated with the later event than with an earlier one. 404
As Barnett wrote, Einstein showed that, "space and time are forms of
intuition, which can no more be divorced from consciousness than can
our concepts of color, shape, or size." According to the Theory of General
Relativity: "time has no independent existence apart from the order of
events by which we measure it." 405
Since time consists of perception, it depends entirely on the
perceiver—and is therefore relative.
The speed at which time flows differs according to the references we
use to measure it, because the human body has no natural clock to indicate
precisely how fast time passes. As Barnett wrote, "Just as there is no such
thing as color without an eye to discern it, so an instant or an hour or a day
is nothing without an event to mark it.” 406
The relativity of time is plainly experienced in dreams. Although
what we perceive in a dream seems to last for hours, in fact, it only lasts
for a few minutes, and often even a few seconds.
An example will clarify the point. Assume that you were put into a
room with a single window, specifically designed; and were kept there for

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