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Whichever one is objectively correct based on empirical evidence.
Fun fact: time travel does exist, and I am myself a time traveler. The fact that I'm travelling at one second per second along with everyone else is just a minor detail.
Imagine if someone just naturally traveled through time at like... 1.0005 seconds per second... What would that look like? Would we be able to tell? Would they be able to tell? Would their perception be different?
This is a Relativity thing, isn't it? Like the astronaut twins sort of...
That's exactly like being a bit closer to the bottom of a steep gravity well.
Yes, we could tell if they took a precise clock with them. In fact, we have to account for an even smaller discrepancy in order for GPS to work: we here stuck further down in Earth's gravity well travel through time and extra ten milliseconds or so per year vs. an orbiting satellite.
Are we traveling through time? Or is time simply a universal constant of entropy? Everything you experience is energy flowing from a higher potential to a lower potential, with some "loss" to heat. Without that downward shuffle, a rock balanced on it's tip is indistinguishable from a time-stopped version of itself.
Basically, time is your body's sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.
Why would it be less terrifying to be further away from a gravity well?
I think you meant this comment for a different thread.
Nope.
Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?
You implied that life would be more terrifying the faster you traveled through time, like what would happen at the bottom of a gravity well.
Where?
In your original comment I replied to.
Well, that was not the intended message to convey.
Can you quote the part that gives you that impression? I'd like the chance to fix or clarify it.
It's the last sentence.
This doesn't appear to pertain to gravity wells.
What happens to the rate at which you travel through time as you approach the bottom of a gravity well?
Yes, I know how special relativity relates space and time together, and that gravity is a warping of space, but I don't see how this matters in the context of my comment.
If time moves faster at the bottom of a gravity well, and terror increases with the speed of time, then what can we infer?
That you're nitpicking a little bit of creative writing?
I don't think so, I think you fucked up your understanding of my comment, and rather that admit it, you've gone on a 12 post goose chase to try and avoid admitting that you didn't understand anything I wrote. Just own it dude, it's okay to be wrong sometimes.
Except you didn't make a connection. Go ahead and quote where you made the connection, and explain it. There is no practical character limit on these posts, you can link outside sources and supplemental material here. How about you put your money where your mouth is and actually back up what you are saying?
Here, I'll throw the gauntlet hard, right now. You make that post, quoting the context, explaining what I missed, and I'll go back and edit every one of my posts in this thread admitting that I lost and this whole conversation was unproductive and I was being an idiot asshole. You don't even have to wager anything in return, because you won't do it, because you can't do it, and when you don't even try to do it in your next comment, it will be a bold-faced admission that you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and you're just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.