{"id":149946,"date":"2022-11-11T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-reality-is-shaped-by-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:22:36","slug":"how-reality-is-shaped-by-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-reality-is-shaped-by-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"How reality is shaped by the speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-reality-is-shaped-by-the-speed-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it gets weirder.<\/p>\n<p>The light from the table sitting just one meter away from you is also taking some time to reach you. Since its half as far away as the chair, you are seeing it as it was 330 picoseconds ago. That\u2019s half as far back in the past as the chair. Ok, fine, but they both appear to you in the now. What you perceive as the \u201cnow\u201d is really layer after layer of light reaching your eye from many different moments in the past. Your \u201cnow\u201d is an overlapping mosaic of \u201cthens.\u201d What you imagine to be the real world existing simultaneously with you is really a patchwork of moments from different pasts. You never live in the world as it is. You only experience it as it was, a tapestry of past vintages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it gets weirder. The light from the table sitting just one meter away from you is also taking some time to reach you. Since its half as far away as the chair, you are seeing it as it was 330 picoseconds ago. That\u2019s half as far back in the past as the chair. Ok, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}