What exactly is time? We only know that time is always moving forward, and there seems to be no end and no end. But it is difficult to say the nature of time, it seems to be illusory, but it can really be felt.
Whether time is an illusion
Some scientists believe that time is an important part of the universe, and it exists objectively. But some scientists say that time is just an illusion of human beings, it does not exist. In order to find out whether time exists, NASA has done a crazy experiment in which a woman is locked in a closed cave for a full 210 days to see her reaction, in order to crack the secret of time. However, the trial was forced to be aborted after 130 days, so what happened?
In 1989, NASA began to implement this "time test", they had to select test subjects, they found through research that women in this confined space psychological endurance is stronger than men, so the last 20 people selected are all women, aged 22-30 years old, one of whom is called Stephanie. Stefania Follini's 27-year-old woman, an Italian interior designer, was finally selected, and the selection panel considered her psychological endurance and "endogenous" to be stronger than everyone else.
Stephanie. Fellini
The experiment began on January 13, 1989, when NASA found a natural cave 30 meters underground in a vast area of New Mexico, usa, so far from the ground that it could not see any sunlight or hear anything from the ground.
Experimental cave
At the same time, there are several additional conditions for this test:
There were no timing tools in the cave, and the experimenter could not feel the day and night
There are only three lights in the cave, which are the only appliances inside
There was no sound in the cave, and the silence was terrible
There are a large number of books in the cave for the experimenter to read
There was plenty of food and water in the cave, as well as bathrooms and toilets
The cave communicates with the outside world with only one button, and the experimenter can interrupt the experiment at any time
At the end of the experiment, the experimenter receives a generous bonus.
Of course, the entire cave was covered with cameras, and the experimenters were monitored 24 hours a day.
After the experiment began, Fellini was so confident that she told reporters before entering the cave that she had long wanted to live this kind of isolation, and that there were endless books, and she thought she could spend these 210 days happily.
Before Fellini enters the cave
In the first ten days of the experiment, the experiment was unexpectedly successful, Andiny read in the cave, exercised, ate, slept, planned in an orderly manner, everything was the same as her life on the ground, and her strong self-discipline really made her very accustomed to this life, and even the weekly opportunity to talk to the experimenter she did not use, but went according to her own plan.
These books helped a lot
At first, Forini slept every 8-10 hours, eating 2-3 meals at each sleep interval, basically maintaining her daily rhythm, but as the experiment progressed, Fellini's sleep interval became longer and longer, she sometimes slept for 20 hours, and when the experimenter asked her, she said she felt that it had not been so long.
2 months passed, Forini's biological clock began to be confused, she began to stay awake for more than twenty hours, sleep for ten hours at a time, and the books were getting less and less, the experimenters in order to let the experiment continue, added some "materials" to her, respectively, a guitar, a computer that did not have time to display but could play games (simple games such as cards), and gave her two friendly mice, it can be said that Forini's life is richer and more diverse, There's more to pass the time.
The two rats became Good Friends of Fellini
On the 90th day of the experiment, Forini said that she was all right, she could take full control of her life, eat when she wanted, sleep when she wanted, play when she wanted, tease mice when she wanted, and these two mice did bring a lot of fun to her life, and often stole her food.
However, through the camera, researchers have found That Foresti's abnormality, her biological clock is completely confused, she sometimes only sleeps for 2 hours to get up, sometimes she can sleep for two full days at a time, and she tells people outside that she feels like sleeping for several hours, and her biological clock can no longer judge the length of time.
What the cave looked like at the beginning
She looked gloomy, didn't read much, didn't play much with mice, just mechanically operated the computer, played those games, and sometimes she didn't eat much for days on end, just drank water, and then fell back to sleep, sleeping for a day before getting up.
By the time the experiment reached 100 days, the researchers found that her menstruation had become chaotic, sometimes several times a month, sometimes not once, and finally her menstruation stopped for a while, she did not like to eat, she lost 17 kilograms, she sometimes did not eat for a day, sometimes woke up and overea.
Forini in the experiment
The experimenters had to deliver her some essential drugs such as vitamins to prevent her from completely collapsing.
When the experiment was 120 days old, the experimenters found that Forini had completely changed from when she first entered the cave, her eyes were sluggish, she did not eat, she did not communicate with the people outside, sometimes for several hours, she stared at a corner of the cave without moving, and if she continued like this, she might die.
So, when the experiment was 130 days old, the experimenter forcibly opened the cave door and took Fellini out, she did not answer any questions from the experimenter at first, and after two days on the ground, she began to speak, and was asked how many days she thought she had been in the cave, and Forini replied that she felt that there were about 60 days.
Finally, the examination of Fellini found that many of her physical indicators were problematic, and after treatment, Fellini still felt a strong sense of loneliness after treatment, and was extremely insecure, and she once grinned greatly and became suspicious, and she was particularly prone to daze.
Doctors are examining Forini
Exactly two years later, Fellini was almost back to her former form, and she said that although she received a NASA bonus, she did not recommend that anyone go to such an experiment again, and this feeling of no time was "lingering".
Finally, NASA's research results are that this test can not prove that time does not exist, on the contrary, it shows the importance of time, showing that human beings judge time through external references, such as the sun, the moon, the sun, the moon, the stars, the change of day and night is the most important criterion for our reference time, and they also came to a conclusion, even if the clock is placed in this test, Forini can fully see the time, and the test results will not change much.
This shows that clocks and watches are only a tool for displaying time, and without external references, humans cannot know time.
Moreover, another purpose of this experiment is to see what changes the human body will produce if humans fly for a long time in a closed spaceship, because the closed spaceship cannot see the sun, moon and stars that can only be felt on the earth, and can only be artificially simulated, so if humans want to go to Mars in the future, the shortest flight is 6 months, in these 6 months, how to avoid the situation like Fellini, it is necessary to consider.
A closed spaceship
Finally, the two rats that lived with Fellini were not greatly affected, and what does this mean?
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