2006-09-07 22:34:15 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Dunno, but it sux doesn't it?
2006-09-07 22:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Luminara 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Time is a consideration, it is based in our minds.
In emergency situations, time will seem to slow down, or we speed up.
I have had dreams, which seemed to last hours, in only a few minutes.
Perhaps there is time momentum, where we keep building up speed through time.
UPDATE: I think I just thought of why. As we get older, we are slower, thus time passing seems faster.
2006-09-08 00:28:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all realative, 5 minutes today is the same as 5 minutes 500 years ago, time seems to go faster because we are busier than now as adults than when we were younger. Like when yourr having a good time and time seems to fly, when you do things throughout the day, we have to realize that things take time, no matter haow fast yuo think you can do it, it still takes time.
2006-09-08 03:26:02 · answer #3 · answered by Mann 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was told that it was due to proportion. At ten 1 year is 10% of your life, at 20 it's 5% and at 50 it's only 2%. So when I was young a year would seem like a long time to have to wait for anything, now it's nothing: it'll just fly by.
2006-09-07 22:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most likely because when you are younger, you do not feel the constraints of time so much. When you are young, you just worry about getting through to the next summer holiday.
As you grow older, you start to feel the pressures of growing up, of getting married, of starting a family. As you reach each of these milestones, it makes you stop to think, 'gosh, I'm at this point in my life' and then to evaluate how much of your life you've used up already.
But that's life, I guess the big moral is to just enjoy it all as much as possible!
2006-09-07 23:33:04 · answer #5 · answered by gruffalo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Becuase your batteries are running out. So your brain takes longer to process something.
It might take 5 ticks to process something at 50 where it took 2 ticks when you were 10.
You've resulted in the same answer but time has passed, so you think timeis running faster.
2006-09-07 23:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe 1 year in 20 seems more than 1 year in 70
2006-09-07 23:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by motardo_man 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our perception of time passing is that of a series of events ( if nothing happened then we could not perceive time ). When we are young the gap between two events makes up a large part of our personal "forever" ( since birth). When we are old the same gap makes up a small part of our personal "forever". So events subjectively feel closer together when we are old, which is the same as to say that time seems to pass quickly.
2006-09-07 23:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by bob s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a young child a year is such a big part of your life (a fifth of your life if you are 5) and you are learning all the time. When you are older, a year is not so significant as it is a much smaller proportion of your life and of course you have many years of experience to think about.
2006-09-07 22:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It certainly feels like it. I also think it goes faster when yo have children, I just don't seem to have enough hours in a day to do everything
2006-09-08 01:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by chelle0980 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because you're trying to squeeze so much more into your day/ week/ month. When you're young all you have to care about is school, homework and playing, maybe the occasional chore.
As you get older your responsibilities increase, the amount of things you need to get done in a day increase and it seems harder to fit them all in, thus the time seems to go quicker
2006-09-07 22:38:30 · answer #11 · answered by smsgreaves 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋