To prove that time doesn't exist, scientists let a woman live in a cave for 130 days. What was the result?

We often lament the passage of time, if only life had no time limit!

In fact, time is invisible and intangible, a concept imposed by human beings.

For example, Einstein, a famous physicist, has a profound exposition in this respect. He believes: "Time and space are an illusion of people's cognition."

So does "time" really exist? If there is no time limit, what kind of state will human beings be?

To this end, scientists at all times and all over the world have done relevant experiments.

The most famous is the "Time Perception Experiment" jointly conducted by NASA and Italian scientists in 1989.

The purpose of this experiment is to study the related reactions of human body in a closed environment without time perception.

Therefore, the relevant test environment conditions are set:

For a group of registered volunteers, the scientific research team conducted a rigorous psychological test and physical fitness test, and strictly selected them.

Finally, 27-year-old Italian decorator Stephanie passed the test.

This underground cave is arranged as a "home" with complete living facilities.

Besides food, there are televisions, books, computers, guitars, KTV and so on.

At first, Stephanie ate, slept, read, studied, exercised and entertained at home as usual.

After she woke up from sleep, she habitually entered the "next day" life process.

Although there is no time reference, Stephanie's life is very regular.

However, as time went on, Stephanie's life gradually became chaotic.

For example, when she is awake, she can roughly grasp the time. But sometimes after only sleeping for a few hours, she thinks it is "the next day" and repeats the life process of the previous day.

Moreover, the proportion of time allocated during her activities is becoming more and more random.

Sometimes three meals are irregular. Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, and wake up naturally. Sometimes reading and studying will last for several hours, and sometimes I will fall asleep for more than ten hours.

In this quiet and closed environment, she is isolated from the world, has no time limit, and lives a free life.

A worrying phenomenon has emerged. The research team found that Stephanie's daily routine and biological clock gradually became chaotic, her mental state declined, her behavior was lazy, and she was in danger of physical and mental collapse.

The experiment was originally planned to last 2 10 days. But on130th day, Mauricio Montalbini, the head of the research team, thought that the collected data was enough, and it was not good for Stephanie's physical and mental health to continue, so she ended the experiment ahead of schedule.

Stephanie felt relieved when she left the basement and saw the light of day again.

Stephanie thinks that she has lived in this experimental environment for about 60 days, but it has actually passed 130 days.

After physical and mental tests, Stephanie showed obvious weight loss, calcium loss and obvious decline in immune function.

Moreover, there are different degrees of obstacles in sleep, attention, time perception and other physical and mental aspects.

Obviously, these are the sequelae of this experiment.

It can be seen from this experiment that time does not exist, it is just a kind of consciousness of human beings.

However, if you don't know the proportion of time passing, the pace of life will become chaotic and your physical and mental health will be seriously hurt.

In other words, without "time" as a reference and constraint, it is difficult for human beings to live normally.

This experimental result can also be used for reference for human exploration of space.

In the space environment, astronauts will be closed and isolated for a period of time, which is different from the reference concept of "time" on earth. Then it will definitely have a great impact on the work life and physical and mental health of astronauts.

Therefore, although time is an abstract existence, human beings can define time, especially by using timing tools.

As scientist Hawking thinks: Time travel is feasible. "Matter and time and space coexist. As long as matter exists, time is meaningful. "

The cycle of the sun, the moon and the day and the alternation of the four seasons in nature is a natural law and a natural phenomenon, which has nothing to do with time.

However, human beings have regarded them as the reference of time since ancient times, and on this basis, they have invented the sundial, water clock, mechanical clock, quartz clock and atomic clock to define and use time.

So time is fair and equal to everyone, depending on how you manage your time, cherish the years and control your life.

To prove that time doesn't exist, scientists let a woman live in a cave for 130 days. What was the result?

198965438+1October13rd, the Italian sociologist and psychologist Mauricio Montalbini started a famous "time" experiment, the purpose of which was to "study human sleep patterns, biological rhythms, immunology and immunology without knowing the time.

There are many settings in the experiment. Now it seems to be a very inhuman experiment, and even recruited volunteers. Let's first take a look at the abnormal requirements when participating in the experiment:

Stephanie, an Italian interior designer, didn't know why she was stimulated, so she took part in this arduous experiment, because according to the habits of modern people, what is the difference between this and imprisonment? We can eat one meal a day and sleep for four hours a day, but we must not lose our mobile phones, so this experiment passed first!

Stephanie (female name)

But Stephanie not only participated in the experiment, but also the results were amazing! At first, Stephanie studied, exercised (Stephanie likes to practice aerobics and judo), ate and slept regularly, and everything seemed no different from the outside world, but because she didn't know the proportion of time passing, the pace of life began to become chaotic.

For example, when Stephanie is awake, she will master the time roughly, but sometimes she may get into the habit of "the next day" after sleeping, but sometimes her sleeping time is only 1-2 hours, but sometimes her study and exercise will last for more than one day, and then she will fall asleep after ten hours. Three meals are irregular, and she is hungry and sleepy.

It seems to be an ideal state, ha. We are not pursuing money cramps and sleeping until we wake up naturally, at least the above state has been completed half of the ideal. But in fact, this state has reached the point where the human biological clock is about to collapse, because Stephanie's physiological period has disappeared since the second month, and another serious problem has emerged: severe weight loss, calcium loss and sharp decline in immune function!

Circadian rhythm chart

Another problem is that she has no concept of time. Stephanie thought she had been in this environment for two months, but in fact it has been more than four months. The experiment was originally planned to last for 2 10 days, but on 130 days, the director, Mauricio Montalbini, thought the data was sufficient and ended the experiment ahead of schedule.

Stephanie climbed out of the experimental cave.

What's the point of the experiment?

"Deep Space Amnesia" tells the story of a spaceship carrying 60,000 immigrants, ready to go to a livable planet in Tanis ... When the people on the spaceship woke up, they found that they had lost their memory and the cabin was already dark. The spaceship is full of all kinds of mutant monsters. When they finally remembered that they had emigrated to another planet, they decided to start the engine and restore power.

It was finally found that the spacecraft had landed in the ocean of tanis more than 1000 years ago. They have been dormant in the hibernation cabin of the spacecraft for almost thousands of years, but the crew who have woken up because of the fault broke out because of the "deep cabin sequela", which is a special symptom of being far away from the home planet, closed environment and having no scruples, killing each other and finally becoming a man-eating monster.

Although this is a science fiction film, there is a very real problem. If a large number of human beings live in such a closed environment without any time, materials and external information, how will it develop? Because the next Millennium is very likely to happen!

That's why NASA finally got involved. Of course, the purpose of NASA is to understand the future trip to Mars and provide reference data. At that time, it was thought that the landing on Mars would take place after the 1990s, but I never knew that it had been delayed for 30 years.

What exactly is time?

In fact, this experiment has nothing to do with time, but mainly about how human beings will develop after losing the rhythm of time. Time has little to do with human beings, but timing tools are very important, so if you want to go to a closed environment, watches may be the most important.

Time is a basic physical quantity, and all we can change is how to define it. From the earliest day and night to the later sundial, to the water clock, mechanical clock, quartz clock and atomic clock, time is getting more and more accurate, but what scientists have never understood is how time came!

Scientists have always been skeptical about time, thinking that it is only a form of entropy increase, because time and entropy increase are very similar. With the passage of time, it is impossible to return to the previous state. The way we are now can only slow it down or even stagnate. Of course, stagnation is only expressed from a theoretical model.

For example, the gravitational field can slow down time, and high-speed flight can also slow down time, so the absolute view of time and space in Newton's era has been upgraded to the relativistic view of time and space, and time in the universe is different everywhere.

So what is time? How is the time before the birth of the universe defined?

We live in a world composed of specific time and space every day. No matter where we work or study, we are used to the concept of time. As time goes by, we feel the alternation of day and night, the change of seasons and the change of appearance. For us, time always flows forward, and we can't catch it or repair it. Time has become our mindset. When we do anything, we will pay more or less attention to what time we are in and how long we have experienced, and guide our production, life and behavior patterns through different time stages. However, some scientists believe that time does not exist, it is only the product of human imagination. In order to verify this conclusion, a crazy experiment was done.

Let's take a look at this experiment first.

1989, NASA and an Italian research institute focused on the practical problem that astronauts can only be in a very narrow closed space in space. These astronauts' mastery of time is very different from the phenomena observed outside and the corresponding relationship observed on the earth. Therefore, in order to simulate the situation that they can't detect the passage of specific time in a relatively narrow closed environment, they began to implement a ".

After layers of screening, the Institute selected a young woman named Stefania Foligni from more than 20 registered volunteers. She is 28 years old and is an interior designer. She is very healthy, has a strong self-disciplined lifestyle, and has a high psychological quality of effectively resisting external pressure. With these advantages, volunteers were sent to an underground room decorated in advance.

This room is located in an underground cave in New Mexico, with a depth of about 30 meters and an area of about 20 square meters. The room has been effectively isolated from the outside, and the ground staff will regularly deliver enough air and delicious food to the room. At the same time, in order to make the female volunteers live more comfortably, in addition to the necessary living, the room also specially prepared a large number of books and musical instruments for her recreation. At the same time, she is equipped with a computer.

Of course, in order to better serve the purpose of the experiment, anything that female volunteers can see, hear and touch will not show real-time time on it. For example, there are no clocks and volunteers in the room, no TV and radio to receive external time information, and even the equipped computer has been specially processed, so it can neither surf the Internet nor display the time. In order to know the physical and emotional state of female volunteers in real time, a camera was installed in the room.

What is the result of the experiment?

At the beginning of the experiment, even if Foligni didn't know the time outside, he couldn't know whether it was day or night, but he could keep his previous daily habits, such as reading, studying, listening to music, exercising, doing handicrafts and so on.

However, with the passage of time, the pace of life in Foligni has become more and more irregular. Whether sleeping, reading or entertaining, chaos has begun to appear, especially the time difference between sleeping and resting is getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes she can sleep more than ten hours, and sometimes she can sleep less than two hours. In her opinion, she seems to have slept all night. With the breaking of the law of life, Foligni's temperament began to change, gradually becoming anxious, irritable, unresponsive and in a trance. His figure became thinner and thinner, and finally his physical condition became worse and worse, even his physiological period became abnormal, and finally he stopped.

Finally, for the sake of Foligni's health, the institute was forced to terminate the experiment. After she insisted on 130 days, she took it again.

This experiment can't prove whether time exists.

Imagine that if we put a volunteer in a very wide area on the ground instead of a narrow underground space, we also give her some restrictive conditions, such as not touching any time-related equipment, instruments and information, but we can provide her with a more comfortable wide space and a more comfortable activity area, and also provide her with other volunteers who can chat, talk and cooperate with her. I think there is a high probability that this volunteer will not appear in the above experiment at all.

Therefore, this experiment done by NASA accurately verifies the feedback and influence of the human body's "biological clock" on health, and does not touch the ultimate proposition of whether time exists. Because we don't provide clocks or any related time information, it doesn't mean that time won't "pass" on volunteers. This is not a cover-up.

What exactly is time?

Our current definition of time refers to a parameter used by people to describe the process of material movement or event occurrence, which can be used to express the characteristics of persistence and sequence brought about by material movement, including two basic concepts, namely time (time point) and time period (stage between two time points). From this definition, we can know that once time is determined, it will not show a periodic change law because of external influence.

Einstein closely linked time and space after establishing special relativity and general relativity. Among them, the special theory of relativity shows that the movement of objects will have an impact on space-time and time will expand at a very high speed. Einstein made clear the conclusion that "time and space * * * together constitute a four-dimensional space-time" through the principle of invariability of light speed and the principle of special relativity, and considered this to be the basic structure of the universe.

Later, in the general theory of relativity, Einstein further expounded that the gravitational field will cause space-time distortion, and the greater the gravity, the stronger the space-time distortion. This is also the reason why time passes much faster around such an attractive celestial body as a black hole than other cosmic spaces.

Through Einstein's theory of relativity, we can see that both motion and gravity will affect time. Motion and gravity are the same properties of all substances in the universe. Therefore, although time is an artificially defined physical quantity, it is an important aspect to reflect the motion and gravity of matter.

Hubble, an American astronomer, observed the redshift of the universe through an astronomical telescope, which proved the fact that the universe was expanding and indirectly confirmed the origin of the universe-the Singularity Big Bang. Before the Big Bang, all the matter and energy in the universe were concentrated on a singularity with infinite mass and infinitesimal volume. It can be said that there was no universe, no space and no time. With the progress of the Singularity Big Bang, space expanded rapidly, resulting in the motion of matter and gravitational field effect, so time and space were produced together and expanded together (for time, expansion means that time goes forward).

Because space-time is a unified field, and the universe, like the human body, is bound to be born, grow and die, and finally complete "reincarnation" in another form, then space-time must have a starting point and an end point. Among them, the starting point and ending point of space are well understood, that is, from the big bang of singularity, and finally all of them shrink back to a singularity. The turning point of this cycle is that space has changed from expansion to contraction.

Therefore, for time, just like space, it begins with the singularity big bang and finally forms a sense of freshness. So the turning point of the passage of time is the critical point of space from expansion to contraction. Before this critical point, time has been passing forward, but after this critical point, time should turn back. Does that mean it's time to go back? Readers, do you think this will happen?