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Just to add to your second point, one of the reason that time moves faster is that, in a sense, it is moving faster. When you're 10, a whole year is increasing
by chez17 13y ago
Just to add to your second point, one of the reason that time moves faster is that, in a sense, it is moving faster. When you're 10, a whole year is increasing your life by 10%. That's a huge percentage of your life. By the time your 60, that year is a much much smaller percentage. Thinking of it like that, it's not surprising that 10% of your life seems longer than ~1%.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoInnovative experiences are a large part of that. A young person can do new things every day. An older person has to work to find new things.
- Dewie 13y agoAnd yet, boredom often leads to time feeling like it is progressing at a snail's pace.
- Dewie 13y agoI can't relate to this. The fact that you have lived for 23 rather than 10 years might make a single year feel less significant in retrospect, but there is no obvious connection to how you feel about that year when it is actually happening.
- beagle3 13y agoBut the same thing applies to days, or even hours. So while every microsecond is the same, at the end of the second, in retrospect it was a faster second. And at the end of the hour, in retrospect, a faster hour, etc.
- e12e 13y agoWhat if you walk up a ladder? 1 meter isn't that far, but 2 meter is a lot farther up. Difference between 10 and 11 meters -- can you even tell?
- Dewie 13y agoI've tried (and failed) to run a marathon. It certainly didn't feel any shorter as I progressed.
- e12e 13y agoWhen it comes to measuring progress through life, I think walking is a better image than running. Also, it's not really a dash towards the end, is it?
- e12e 13y agoThinking more about this, if you're running at a marathon, your concerned not with how far you've come, but how far is left. Such a view of life isn't likely to be very productive. I still think my point holds for your marathon effort -- 1 meter after start is very different from 2 meters after start (or say 50 and 100) -- however the difference between 1000m and 1001 (1050) -- not really easily perceptible without some kind of aid?
- e12e 13y agoThinking more about this, if you're running at a marathon, your concerned not with how far you've come, but how far is left. Such a view of life isn't likely to be very productive. I still think my point holds for your marathon effort -- 1 meter after start is very different from 2 meters after start (or say 50 and 100) -- however the difference between 1000m and 1001 (1050) -- not really easily perceptible without some kind of aid?
- readme 13y agoI'm waiting for physicists to discover that the passage of time fluctuates. It really feels that way.