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It's going to be an uphill battle for you to truly understand Quantum Mechanics. Einstein, and Galileo long before, made a clear distinction between LOCAL and GLOBAL. Locally the earth is flat and unmoving, globally it is round, spinning and orbiting the sun. We have a saying in physics : when all else fails, go back to Newton. Newton's First law : an object(collection of fermions) will remain at rest, or move in a straight line(momentum) at a constant velocity(ignoring curvilinear gravity effects)until an external force(mass-time)is impressed upon it. Momentum is mv, mass is mv^2/2, an intergral/derivative relationship. Locally the collection of fermions feels NOTHING in Momentum, it's in a balanced Wave=Particle state. Globally, you as an external observer with your stop watch, are in an unbalanced W not=to P or mass-time state(ie, using Kinetic Energy at some delta rate). The formulas are : t=dKE=m=(W not=to P) and not-t=PE=M=(W=P). W here means Matter Waves, the other, hidden, invisible half of your existence. Just as light(the EM spectrum) is WAVES as well as PARTICLES, so is matter(ie, fermions, ie, electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks)also WAVES as well as particles. You don't SEE them, you feel them as decelerations/weight(W>P)in your "time-eye" body, as the "observer". Physicists use the term : "collapse of the wavefunction" but I prefer "over running matter wave energy in newtons of wave FORCE". Think of a surf wave slamming into a cliff/seawall, that's how "time" works, with your clock, with your haptics/neural network, stopping at your brain. Try this simple CM experiment : throw a baseball back and forth between your hands. When you accelerate it(coulomb repulsion of electron clouds actually)you have increased the Particle velocity(Pv)but not the complementary matter Wavelength(Ws for Wave shape or spectrum, or lambda), it ALSO has to be increased to match that higher Pv, and thus reach a higher momentum level(W=P). Now, you NEVER feel that local, internal increase in Ws anymore than you do in freefall. What YOU feel is a resistance due to your throwing hand being DEcelerated. Newton's Third : For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction(that's how rockets work). Thus the hidden matter wave energy you are investing in the accelerated baseball is INVISIBLE, GONE into the "bank". Einstein put it as either keeping your money in your pocket or putting it in the bank(w/o deposit slips), but you can't have it both ways! That would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics : Energy is never created or destroyed, only transferred. Thus, LOCALLY the increased +dWs of acceleration is NEVER felt, sensed, detected; even if it's your own body. Thus you don't feel acceleration energy going INTO your body(WP). Thus the impact energy of catching the baseball is that earlier acceleration coming back out(withdrawal slip not included)as deceleration. So try it with any small, dense object : you're throwing matter wave energy back and forth. Real simple if you understand QUANTUM MECHANICS....

"It's going to be an uphill battle for you to truly understand Quantum Mechanics."

I suppose you think this is the equivalent of getting my attention with a two-by-four.

Why do you think I need a primer on Quantum Mechanics? Because I dispute your contention that time is an illusion?

I have a complete comprehension of all the points you were trying to establish. I understand about the different world-view that an understanding of QM offers.

Try this on for size:

You have a space ship of advanced design. It's reactionless drive depends on high-speed plasma physics. Here's how it works:

You have two very large superconducting rings, with a large mass of plasma circling in each at near-relativistic speeds. They move in opposite directions so that gyroscopic precession effects can be used to shift the orientation of the ship in various directions.

When you are ready to go "thataway", you accelerate the plasma through electrical and magnetic effects, adding mass to the plasma in the process. As they circle the run, and enter an orientation where slowing of the plasma particles can be performed without affecting the course of the ship, mass is removed from the plasma in the form of magnetohydrodynamic energy capture.

In this process, the deceleration forces are trying to disassemble the ship, but it is a sturdy ship. It holds together.
When the plasma is again in a position to be accelerated, it is, as Maxwell's Demon, and all his assorted henchdemons, start rowing as fast as they can.

In a sense, this is a relativistic equivalent of the Dean Drive, and I hope I do not curse it with that appellation. It seems intuitively practical to use the relativistic mass enhancement as a means of producing a reactionless thrust. The rest of the technicalities are left as an exercise for the student.