Space time relation paradox

Ass
what is Space time?
Nine
Are you mad?
Ass
No...madness is an irrational state of existence
Nine
Exactly so is space time
Ass
What do you mean?
Nine
Imagine you are talking to me
Ass
But I am talking to you as mad as that may seem
Nine
Well imagine two people together
Ass
Are they facing each other?
Nine
Yes but where are they in time and space?
Ass
Well they are together at the same time in the same space talking
Nine
ghghhhhggtrtyyyrr!
Ass
What have I said? You are imitating my response to a cliche.
Nine
It is a bit banal and also wrong.
Ass
How is it wrong?
Nine
You are confusing perceived notions of reality with scientific reality.
Ass
Eh?
Nine
Imagine you are alone
Ass
I wish I was now
Nine
Come on and concentrate...close your eyes
Ass
Ok they are shut
Nine
Imagine you are looking around at your environment
Ass
Everything?
Nine
At everything
Ass
So what?
Nine
Here is a little fact, it takes about 8 minutes for the light of the sun to travel to the earth to light up what you are seeing
Ass
8 minutes...I can leave the house go to the shop, buy a newspaper, wander about a bit get back to the house and then bang the sun hits.
Nine
Exactly, so the light travels from the sun before you left the house and you can do all those things before the sun hits.
Ass
But the light is continuous
Nine
That is true
Ass
So if I left the house at 8 AM I would be illuminated by light was shining from the sun at 7.52 AM
Nine
OK...so you see how light takes time to travel from the Sun to Earth to illumate what is around you?
Ass
That seems fair enough
Nine
There is a little extra part to this
Ass
What else?
Nine
Well the distance between what you see and the time it takes to be illuminated by the sun
Ass
But I see that instantly
Nine
Not quite
Ass
I look and there it is
Nine
There is a minuscule delay between the light hitting the object and you seeing the object
Ass
Are you trying to tell me....what are you trying to tell me?
Nine
Everything that you see is not in the physical present but in the past due to the time it takes for the reflection of light off an object into your consciousness.
Ass
Is that true about all your physical senses
Nine
Absolutely.. now here is the paradox
Ass
For heavens sake I was just about grasping the concepts you were bombarding me with why introduce a paradox?
Nine
Its just an absolutely wonderful paradox
Ass
OK Mr Paradox.. go for it
Nine
We both think we see each other in the present but due to the way our senses register what is around us, the time delay causes me to see everything you do as being in the past. To me you do not exist in the present only in the past. The only thing that exists in the present is myself.
Ass
But the same is correct for me?
Nine
Yes...hence the paradox.
Ass
So what about the future?
Nine
I am not sure the future exists in terms of human existence only the present and the past.
Ass
My head hurts
Nine
There lies your madness