Boss
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A photograph was a capture of an instantaneous moment in time. We are now viewing that moment from the perspective of an event that occurred in the past.Except that there certainly is an instantaneous perception of time. It's called the present. Something as simple as a photograph is an instantaneous capture of a moment in time.It's only impossible in your version of of a reality where one or more gawds =time. There is an instantaneous perception of "now", the present.Still irrelevant. You can't see anything until physics happens and time passes, it's impossible.
You can invent your own version of The Physiques of Boss'ism if you wish, it just doesn't make it true.
Except, nothing about perception of any kind happens instantaneously. You perception of "now" takes time and physics happening. I can look into the sky at a distant star... now... this very moment... my perception is of the star hundreds of years ago, I can't observe the star in the actual present, it may not even exist anymore. I'm in the present, I'm looking at the star, it appears in my present but what appears is the light from hundreds of years ago.
I'm not the one trying to invent my own version of physics here, that's you, Hollie.
Your attempt at analogy with light from distant points in space is really pretty silly. Our perception of that light is an instantaneous moment in time as those photon particles reach our location in space.
A photo is a record of something in the past. It was already in the past before the camera lense opened to record it. It also took time for the camera to record something... that didn't happen instantly... even with an instamatic!
My example of light from a distant star is not an analogy. It is my point being magnified so dummies like you can hopefully understand. Nothing you can observe is happening "now" because it already happened.Your observation is the result of time passing and physics happening.
The problem you have with understanding these concepts is that you have preconceived and preconfigured your argument from a fundamentalist religious position god=time™ and like your other threads, your proselytising.
No photograph is a capture of an instantaneous moment. ALL photographs take some amount of time to capture and can't be captured without time happening. Back in the early days of photography, that "instantaneous moment" might take 10 minutes to record... it's why no one smiled in photos back then.
Everything you view is an event which already happened and is in the past.