Why does the time-space continum seem to be speeding up as I age?

Question

Even now at 30 it seems much faster than when I was 25!

I know it is absolutely because of my perspective, hence the use of the word "seem." I'm looking for the why my perspective is being rushed.

Answer 1

"When you are driving to a new place, it feels longer to get there than to return. No, you are not crazy, this is a confirmed perceptual bias. When taking the route for the first time, you are engaged in an act of problem solving. Subjective time passes more slowly (this has been validated by various experiments). On the way back, you know the route (you hope). Subjective time then passes more quickly. Jay Ingram puts it this way: "When your mind is focused on something other than the passage of time, you are fooled into thinking that less time has passed."
Similarly, if you do two identical tasks, and they take the same time, you will judge your first attempt as having taken longer. But if you change the background context, such as by putting the people in a different room, this illusion tends to vanish.
There is also strong evidence that time seems to go faster as you get older. (Do we leave the problem-solving mode as we age?) Say you are forty and you will live to eighty. According to one set of calculations, your life, as subjectively perceived, is already seventy-one percent over. This is the most disturbing scientific fact I have heard in a long time. Your last twenty years will feel like no more than thirteen percent of your life. Another set of equations, harder to confirm, puts the age of seventeen and a half (!) as the midpoint of your subjectively experienced life. Occasionally patients with extreme brain damage will experience time as passing very very rapidly; the internal clock of one man seemed to be set at about four times regular speed."

I believe the effect in general is psychological: when you're young, you have not yet developed a full understanding of time and how it relates to you and your lifetime. In other words, when you're 7 years old, an afternoon is a significant part of all time you have experienced (consciously) up untill that moment. When you're 29, or 52, or 94 years old, an afternoon becomes just one of many, and pales in comparison to your total lifespan.

Also, as you become older, you tend to have to juggle more things mentally (and physically, sometimes). And the experience of time also seems to be influenced by how many separate actions you can distinguish having done over the course of a single afternoon. If I have a day filled with many activities (shopping, seeing friends, cleaning up your house, having dinner, work, etcetera) the experience of the passing time seems quite fast, while at the same time if I look back late in the afternoon at the first activity of that day, it will seem like ages ago. Likewise, if I spend a day doing nothing (a summer spent in the grass in the park, or a lazy day spent on the couch watching tv), the passing of time seems almost non-existent, but when I look back in the evening or afternoon to the beginning of that day, it seems very close, just because so little has happened in between. This effect plays on a grander scale (your entire lifetime) as well, I think.

While it is true that relativity does allow for local differentiations in time, I think it's unlikely that this has anything to do with our subjective experience of time. The effects don't become even remotely significant untill you get close to the speed of light, the speeds at which we humans move (relative to each other) are virtually non-existant in that aspect. Besides, it would also have to be able to explain why a person doing the exact same things as myself could experience a different subjective passing of time than I would, something that's difficult to rhyme with relativistic effects, since we would both have the same relative (very low) speeds.

Answer 2

It would not influence aging--you sense time dealing with as conventional. even with the indisputable fact that, your clock is ticking slower, compared to anybody else. So, what sounds like a twelve months to you, will be ten on earth (as an social gathering). All techniques that we are attentive to require skill exchanges that bypass on the speed of sunshine (electromagnetic signal between atoms and such). those techniques can not bypass swifter than elementary, yet going close to the speed of sunshine, that may reason those to bypass swifter than elementary--till you modify time. This develop into Einstein's huge idea, which wasn't experimentally shown a lot later (1930's i imagine). the major element--you sense a twelve months go through--you're a twelve months older. out of your point of view, the Earth hit an "time acceleration". quite, you had a time decelerate--yet you probably did not sense a challenge. EDIT--i'd properly be incorrect, yet I disagree with Helmut. Time might want to look to slowing down on earth, yet that would want to be an optical result. the guy truly shifting close to elementary p.c. might want to truly have a time decelerate, because those electromagnetic techniques are those being promptly affected.

Answer 3

That is because it is! This is even pointed towards in the bible.

Mat 24:22 And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

How do you sorten a day, if you don't speed it up? And again he says it

Mar 13:20 And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom He has chosen, He has shortened the days.

another version (the Message) says it this way

Mat 24:22 If these days of trouble were left to run their course, nobody would make it. But on account of God's chosen people, the trouble will be cut short.

and

Mar 13:20 If he let the days of trouble run their course, nobody would make it. But because of God's chosen people, those he personally chose, he has already intervened.

REPENT!

Mat 3:1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
Mat 3:2 and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

it is the time of the end!

Know Jesus
no fear
No Jesus
Know fear!

Answer 4

I think there are two kinds of time, the chronological time and psychological time. The ex. of chronological time are: The movement of the earth around the sun, the physical distance from here to there and the growth and decay of organism. The ex. of psychological time are the interpretations of our mind about the past, present and the future. The young people especially the children are enjoying their present moments because they are happy and carefree. They are not concerned about the past and the future because their desire and needs are simple. Their"now moment"seems eternity to them. When we are getting older our desires and needs are becoming complex and it seems that we are no longer satisfied to what is happening to us at the present so we try to hope for happiness in the future. The chronological time is always constant only our psychological time varies, A happy and simple person is enjoying the present moment and it is eternity to him while unsatisfied person tends to look for happiness in the future, he cannot enjoy the eternal now.

Answer 5

Everything is in a flux due to expansion and movement of the universe. Had there not been any movement then everything would have been static and there would not have been time and space continuum. In spite of this flux, there is something which does not age and that is the Consciousness or the Self.

What is Time and Space, it needs to be understood from the point of view of Vedas and Yoga whose foundation is Consciousness or the Self. It states:

Time is a formulation of Consciousness. It is the most ancient in the creation.

There are two ranges of Consciousness, the Temporal and the Non-Temporal i.e. Time and Timelessness. The infinite Creatrix or Shakti or Dynamism or Rta or creative dynamism of Consciousness is responsible for bringing the non-temporal to the range of the temporal.

The universe is her wheel rolling on the path of time so as to serialise the manifestation of consciousness in temporal succession. This serialisation of the unmanifest into the manifest is a shift from being to becoming. The creative dynamism of consciousness, thus, assumes the form of energy in action in the world outside.

Thus Consciousness projects its content diversely on the screen of the universal canvas owing to its tendency of creative manifestation. It creates the diversity of manifestations, giving rise to time through serialisation.

Time and Diversity are two sides of the same coin. Time is marked by succession of events while the diversity is created through the operation of the tool of succession on the canvas of space. Due to this sort of relationship between Time and Diversity, all that is objectively manifest is conditioned by Time.

Rta or Aditi as the source of the creative dynamics of Consciousness, is the eternal status beyond time as well as succession in time. Affirming externally as an objective reality the succession and non-succession both she bears within herself, settles the universe in the space-time continuum and brings forth and dissolves the universe well within herself.

By virtue of having its axis in consciousness, time in spite of creating countless universes, remains all the same intact throughout until the end of the creative process as the dynamics of consciousness.

Though Time creates endless universes yet it is not wearied, says the Veda. It cannot be analysed either. Though we may divide it, still it survives indestructibility. After the cosmic dissolution, it rests in the Consciousness with the potentiality of creation hidden in it.

Though being the most ancient in creation, It brings itself under the purview of consciousness because its a formulation of consciousness. Thus are perceived many moments. And in those, it extends itself. The beings flow out of it, grow in it and perish in it. It makes the beings ripe.

Within this Consciousness, Time itself becomes ripe and dissolves. One who knows this, is fully established in Yoga.

Thus in Time is recollected the Timelessness and in the axle of the wheel of Time lies embedded the Immortality. Thus Time is unreal Reality because it finally rests in Consciousness or the Self. Even ageing is an illusion from the point of view of Consciousness or the Self. Hence, there is no ageing at all. We feel ageing due to our ignorance of the reality of that does not age and finally space-time continuum also rests in it.

Answer 6

i think an accurate equation is that time goes 2x as fast every 10 years of life. the first 10 years of your life you do not understand anything but as you go on in life things become more and more unnoticeable because you already understand them. and your habits make things go a lot faster if you are on same schedule all the time.

Answer 7

Because your perception of time has changed since you were a child and the hours were infinite. Each year that passes you are more focused on how quickly it left you, making all subsequent years pass even more quickly than the last.

Answer 8

Because "one year" becomes a smaller fraction of your lifespan and your frame of reference seems faster...


When you were one year old, one year represents 100% of your lifetime - so one year seemed pretty long.

When you were two, one year represents 50% of your lifespan.

When you were 25, one year represents 4% of your lifespan.

Now you are 30, one year represents 3.3% of your lifespan.

As you can see the reference diminishes with age, so years seem to go by faster.

Answer 9

Larger masses experience time passing faster.

Answer 10

Time itself is constant. It is your prospective of the passage of time that has changed.

Don't believe me? Survive a College Physics course, if you don't.