| From: Monks ® | 21/03/2002
0:47:31 |
| Subject: perception:time | post id:
669536 |
Has anyone noticed in the last couple of years an increase in the rate of time. And I dont mean that your watch or clock is speeding up. It's more a perception. Example - 6 months ago we had the WTC attack. How quickly has that time for you to the moment of now just passed by? My personal belief is that we as a species are escalating in time from our rapid advancement in new and faster technologies. Like the internet for communicating and the way we can all send information around the globe in a mere few seconds, it's so quick. the faster we get, our perception is almost put to a stop. 100 years ago we had just got the first radio broadcasts. It was the planets first attempt to communicate to the world. Does anyone have this same idea on this? (just some strange attractions whirring through my head) Monks | |
| From: Woodie ® | 21/03/2002
0:50:38 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669541 |
| 6 months ago was six months ago.
10 years ago was 10 years ago. Waiting for the bus this morning seemed like a century. | |
| From: steelo | 21/03/2002
0:53:44 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669546 |
| it is a common phenomenon - age
is the same - the older you get the quicker your birthday comes
around | |
| From: madeline | 21/03/2002
0:54:38 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669547 |
| I think it has something to do
with the fact that most activities or job demands are time-line driven.
People are thinking and working towards a deadline that has to be met at
some other point in time, and the actual 'present moment' is not being
acknowledged. Therefore our perception of time passing is corrupted by not
appreciating it, while it is actually
occurring. | |
| From: Langy ® | 21/03/2002
8:08:27 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669649 |
| When you're 1 year old, it takes
just 12 months to double our age, but when you're 50, it takes half a
century. Time slows down when you get older
:-) | |
| From: B.C. ® | 21/03/2002
8:12:59 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669651 |
| Put your hand
on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour: Sit with a
beautiful girl for an hour and it seems like a minute....thats
relativity. Albert Einstein...... | |
| From: Woman;) ® | 21/03/2002
8:26:05 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669654 |
I certainly am convinced that I personally work at the very least at two different time speeds. My cybertime is definately faster than my "real time". I wish I could articulate it better and I wish that someone could explain that to me...rather than just dismiss it as perception. This perception of mine *is* (some of my) reality(ies). (popping only hence more speed than depth in this post;-)) | |
| From: barbara ® | 21/03/2002
8:49:44 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
669665 |
| Being a bean counter, I really
notice the time flying past. Just get to close off the books for one
month, archive and we are almost halfway into the next accounting month
& so forth.Life certainly does seem pretty pacey: however I'm a mother
of two small kids, demanding hubby & working fulltime with a full
social life so it's to be expected that time is tight for me.Life per
teev(news) does seem pretty pacey though - everyone seems to be rushing as
well. No doubt when I'm in a nursing home alone time will
drag... | |
| From: The Natural Philosopher | 22/03/2002
1:35:42 |
| Subject: re: perception:time | post id:
670773 |
Has anyone noticed in the last couple of years an increase in the rate of time. And I dont mean that your watch or clock is speeding up. It's more a perception. 'Time', and its passage, is one of the trickiest questions facing physics and philosophy, and always has been. The best physics can do is assign time a measurable value-say, a certain number of vibrations of an atomic nucleus between different energy states, and then incorporate it as a 'free parameter' in physical theories. In special and general relativity, and cosmology, time is not an absolute quantity but is relative in its rate of passing depending on distances, relative speeds and the constancy of light speed. In fact, in GR, space and time are 'united' in a geometrical entity called spacetime. Spacetime is a dynamical entity which doesn't exist outside time, but has time itself built into it, the same way for example, as inertia is 'built' into Newtonian mechanics. The laws of thermodynamics and particle physics also give important clues to the nature of time in the universe. According to the second law of thermodynamics for instance, disordered states are much more probable than ordered ones (provided the system is isolated and no work is done on it). The 'entropy' of the universe must either remain the same or increase-it can never decrease. This seems to give an 'arrow' of directionality from past to future in physical processes-for instance, a teacup might fall off a bench and break into shards, but the reverse doesn't happen. Also, in some particle processes, there also seems to be an 'arrow of time.' Some particle decays are more favoured than others, leading to what physicists call a 'CPT breaking transition'-which implies a direction of time. Still, we don't have a full physical understanding of time, but this will hopefully be resolved in the future. | |