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When you are 10 years old, a year isn’t simply a year, it is also 10% of your entire life. In terms of your ability to retain memories, it is even significantly more than that. A year for a 50-year-old is only 2% of that person’s life.
We experience time not only as a fixed measurement, but as a relative measurement of our experience. Thus a 2% measurement is going to seem ‘less’ than a 10% measurement.
If we lived to be 1,000 years, days to us would seem like hours as we aged to our upper years (compared to how a 100-year old would experience a day).
Seems simple enough.
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When you are 10 years old, a year isn’t simply a year, it is also 10% of your entire life. In terms of your ability to retain memories, it is even significantly more than that. A year for a 50-year-old is only 2% of that person’s life.
We experience time not only as a fixed measurement, but as a relative measurement of our experience. Thus a 2% measurement is going to seem ‘less’ than a 10% measurement.
If we lived to be 1,000 years, days to us would seem like hours as we aged to our upper years (compared to how a 100-year old would experience a day).
Seems simple enough.
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I thought this was kind of an interesting topic, non-partisan and a nice diversion from our daily slugfest. And I totally swiped it from over there at volokh.com.
Yes, time is merely a perspective, not an actual construct.
I've had a theory about this for several months, ah I mean years. Seriously though, I think life can be compared to a lengthy commute over a period of years. In the first few months the drive seems to take a long time but, after a few months of driving it, the same commute seems much shorter. In summary, experience speeds up one's perception of time. Just my thought.
Another one of my thoughts is that life is like a roller coaster ride. It's a looonngg "chug" "chug" chug" to the top of the incline which represents the age of forty. After that it's a wild fast ride to the bottom.
Yea, some of us get to to be hung up in the ladies room of a modeling agency, but chances are you and I are gonna end up in the porta-potty at a Nascar rally.
Why Does Time Fly By As You Get Older?
Time flies is explained by the Theory of Relativity. Clocks on mountains run slower than clocks at sea level. Fly away in a spaceship and come back not as aged as people who stayed behind. As you age you grow taller and your head gets further away from the earth's core and whips around the axis faster. That's why old folks are slow to react - they are shrinking.
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