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Psychology of subjective time.


The plan of report:


1. Psychological time of I.S. Newton.

2. Psychological time of the creators of relativity theory.

3. Time at the end of 2000. Objective time does not exist.

4. The reality of existing subjective time.

5. Further development in the spiral of knowledge.


1. Psychological time of I.S. Newton


The psychological view on the world of Isaac Newton included as its own part a physical view on the world. It is expounded in "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687. This is how Newton defines time: "Absolute, apparent mathematical time,, by itself and by its own essence , without any relation to anything external, runs uniformly and is differently called duration". Time exists by itself and doesn't owe whatever in the world its existence. All natural bodies and all physical phenomena submit to its course, but all these bodies and phenomena do not influence somehow on the course of time. All moments of time are equal and identical: time is uniform. The course of time is the same everywhere in the world. It is the same and equally uniform in the past, present and future. Time spreads unlimitedly forward from the present to the future. Time is one-measured: to set a moment of time it is necessary to name one date. Spaces of time are measured off, summed up and subtracted as segments in a straight Evklid's line. Such is absolute time of classical mechanics.

2. Time in psychological view on the world of the creators of relativity theory


The object of study in physics is movement. One of its two formal features - a spatial one - is divided into measured parts of different scales, and the second one - a temporal feature -is running in its romantic simplicity. Being pressed by facts the creators of relativity theory had to overthrow the concepts of space and time from a priori Olymp. Time lost its absoluteness and turned into a metric function.

3. Time at the end of 2000. Objective time does not exist.


What does such historical logic in the development of human representations of time lead to? Going ahead we are giving the answer: objective time does not exist.

Mistaken logic starts by assuming that physical time exists. There are even made efforts to find it. There is one constant question which human thought asks at all times: "What is it time?" Gradual consideration of scientific abracadabra answering on this question during 300 years brings us to the following conclusion. This main conclusion is in non-existence of so-called objective time in general and in connection with conventional concept of time.

They may continue getting evidence that in their scientific conclusions they constantly come to nonsense, realizable or unrealizable, with subsequent laugh by realizing the next nonsense or with subsequent shocking nonplus in a scientific thought which is at a realizable deadlock. For this purpose it is necessary to ask once again the question what time is admitting at the same time that something in the physical world should correspond to the concept of time. It is possible to choose another way. If human thought in its search for an answer on the question always comes to nonsense that means that the starting prerequisite is wrong and it is the following: there is objective time behind the concept of time. "Time exists," that is what from the Newton's times the wrong prerequisite says affirming the existence of absolute time. Given to the humankind the possibility to explain what time is comes to a stop before emptiness. Being observed during late centuries the scientific quest had deepened into explanations about movement which were based on the concept of physical time, and it (the quest) was accompanied both by triumph and by disgrace of human thinking. The triumph is well-known. But the question on which so hopelessly absurdly the scientific thought answers is the question - "What is it time?"

Another question which as it may seem is more lucky is the question of movement in projection to time. However one movement is compared with another one taken for a unity. One movement of a second-hand over a dial serves as the basis for explaining another movement. In other cases movements are compared in projection to one hour - one movement of a minute-hand over a dial. Movement is explained by another movement , one movement is seen and described through another one. There is no necessity at all in the concept of time. One could easily do without it. Thus objective time does not exist. The so-called concept of objective time may be turned into the concept of a change in space, a relative change in space, a change of one space in relation to another one in their changes, or relations of two changes in one space. In the most simple example about a clock as a device which supposedly measures objective time of the movements of a minute- and hour-hands in their relative (to one another) changes, these movements are used to make a conclusion about the course of objective time. However, the correlation of their movements is set beforehand in the clock's construction and it is conventional by its nature, it is artificially placed there beforehand. Thus objective time does not exist, it exists as conventionality.

4. The reality of existing subjective time.


There is one more very vast sphere of human cognition which investigates time as it is in the nature. This sphere of human cognition is psychology of a person; subjective time and its laws are its investigation subjects. And if time is a subjective substance then there are not less than six milliards of subjective times according to the number of the subjects who inhabit the Earth.

5. Further development in the spiral of knowledge.

Putting the concept of velocity in force was the important step in the study of movement and in cognition of the world. It is necessary to do something similar today, but not to compare the changes of space to a single time, i.e. to a one movement taken for a unity, but to compare subjective times themselves to new unities. It is inevitable to make new premises, new concepts. And such premises are already suggested : see, for example, the Postulates of theoretical psychology on http://www.ap.org.ru/

Till now in the science of observed movements there was their bringing together to a single time - objective time and its unity - a second, and to the fact that a second is a standard. And new possibilities today are in bringing apart in the science the observed movements to different times. If till nowadays the velocities of movement were set through bringing together to a single unity of time, now, on the opposite, movements will be considered in different times from the side of these times. The necessity to give a new concept (and a magnitude if we'd like to stay within scientific bounds) is evident; this concept is quickness of change of subjective time. While the velocity of movement in generally accepted scientific understanding is the quickness of spatial change in relation to time which is a spatial change by its essence taken for a unity. The quickness of temporal change along different directions will be a consecutive step in scientific study after the postulates of theoretical psychology have been put in force. See http://.......... According to one of the postulates a moment is a bundle of subjective times, a moment is a multitude of subjective times directed to the subjects of human needs. The quickness as velocity of time running in its own direction. And no wonder that one movement in different times and of different counting systems which is running in different directions of subjective times will be different. The current of subjective times will be the subject of further development of scientific thought in the spiral of knowledge.