  This article explores the constraints of perception and cognition in
relativistic physics. Describing reality as a cognitive representation of our
sensory inputs, the article shows how the limitations in perception translate
to the properties of space and time in physics. This framework of looking at
the visual reality as our brain's representation limited by the speed of light
unifies and explains a wide array of seemingly unrelated astrophysical and
cosmological phenomena. Understanding the constraints on our space and time due
to the limitations in perception and cognitive representation opens the
possibility of understanding astrophysics and cosmology from a whole new
viewpoint.

General Physics