Timeless wizzdome!

Grider's post put me to thinking (i cant do much of it, however..) but then there were serious questions coming to ma mind..and the god damn Physics degree that I claim to hold forced me further..
Hence I decided to go to oxford (a book shop) and explore the topic..
Found a coupla good books..

Essentially its been a debated topic - the definition of time.
While physical time is the public time - sthing that the clocks are designed to measure ; psychological time is private time (better called consciousness)

Now this psychological time passes slowly for someone who is, lets say, waiting for water to boil on the stove..but the clock by the stove is measuring physical time and has nothin to do with the consciousness.

While physical time is more basic for helping us understand our shared experiences in the world, and so it is more useful than psychological time for doing science.

We even have a sense of the passage of time during our sleep, and we awake knowing we've slept for one night, not one year. But if we've been under a general anaesthetic and wake up, we have no sense of how long we've been unconscious. Psychological time almost stopped!!

(Did I hear myself say "yay!!")

(Reminds me of that stupid book "Brief History of time".. how I hated it..)