2006-12-04 04:07:24 · 12 answers · asked by ? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is time as a physical concept. As such, it is the same for everybody traveling at the same speed ( relativity). But you would not appreciate the change if you were going faster or slower than the rest of us.
Then there is perception of time. This is how your brain perceives a sequence of very near memories as present moves into past. It is a fact that as you grow older, your perception of time is faster than when you were a small boy, where days looked to be eternal even if bedtime was 6PM.
Finally if you have multiple activities, time will go like flying, if you are at rest ( like waiting in a long line with nothing to do), time will be perceived as "long" because the sequence of memories will be highly repetitive
2006-12-04 04:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by Robertphysics 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There really is no such thing as "time". At least not in the way you are asking about it. If something seems to go faster or slower that's because, as far as you are concerned, it is. Your perception of time is the only thing that matters. A human cannot tell the difference between something long that seems short and something that is short but seems long.
2006-12-04 05:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by damo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's why it is said that we are "over the hill". We've already made the long slow climb to the top and it's all downhill from here.
But we aren't finished yet! we just figured out how to do this and now we may not have time to do it right. Time just goes by so fast!
2006-12-04 04:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There aren't enough hours in the day!
Time seems to go faster as you get older. If you think about it, when you are two a year is half your life, but when you are a hundred (if you should be so lucky) it's one hundredth.
2006-12-04 05:45:34 · answer #4 · answered by Philosophical Fred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you are doing. If you have a deadline.....the it goes by fast, but if you look at the clock, and want it to go fast, worried about what time it is, then it slows down.....It's reletive to how much you have to finish.
2006-12-04 04:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time seems to "go fast" when we are busy. I heard this funny expression once about time ---- "Time was invented to keep everything from happening at once!"
2006-12-04 08:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by Bluebeard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you are doing something like working and stuff. You get distracted and time will pass fast without you knowing it.
2006-12-04 05:10:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the older you get, the faster time seems to pass
2006-12-04 04:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by JB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive always been told that the time will shorten when the end is near.
2006-12-04 10:15:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the older you get the faster the time...
2006-12-04 04:15:53 · answer #10 · answered by tst1980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋