{"id":239962,"date":"2026-06-29T23:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/time-is-a-processing-delay"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:04:06","slug":"time-is-a-processing-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/time-is-a-processing-delay","title":{"rendered":"Time is a Processing Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTm96OeLMVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I show how the time dilation derived in special relativity by assuming an abstract concept of malleable time, can be derived in a more mechanistic manner by assuming that the cosmos is like a simulation \\&amp; time is a processing delay.<\/p>\n<p>I had this idea while playing minecraft with my son \u2014 every time I approached a large villager-town the PC slowed down and I thought \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I show how the time dilation derived in special relativity by assuming an abstract concept of malleable time, can be derived in a more mechanistic manner by assuming that the cosmos is like a simulation \\&amp; time is a processing delay. I had this idea while playing minecraft with my son \u2014 every time I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239962","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}