Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
2007-01-29 11:57:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
something not favorable, like burning your hand, seems to last a lot longer than it really does, because you are conciously not liking it. on the other hand, spending time with a girl, it all goes so fast because you are enjoying yourself, and loose track of time.
2007-01-29 12:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by smokingstonersweetheart 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You probbaly heard the pfrase 'Time flies when youre having fun', right? well it kind of has something to do with it.
The way in which you percieve the passing of time is relative on wether you are enjoying yourself or not.
If the experience is an enjoyable, such as for an heterosexual man to spend time with a pretty girl, he won't be conscious of what is happening, really, that's why time would pass extremely quickly.
Now, to put your hand on a hot stove, is a painful experience that's why you will be much more conscious of every second you have to endure the pain, for that reason the passing of time would be much more slower.
2007-01-29 15:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has something to do with a hot pretty girl that Albert hired for an hour. He didn't have enough money to pay her, so he made some food on the stove and it turned out that she was actually a relative.
2007-01-29 13:55:36 · answer #3 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is saying that when something hurts, it feels like it lasts a lot longer than it does. When something is fun or feels good it seems a lot shorter. He is talking about the human perception of things good and bad.
2007-01-29 12:06:51 · answer #4 · answered by Vasago 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a long-stretch, but:
Time is relative to matter. (Read up on the theory of relativity)
2007-01-29 12:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Rube 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is talking about perception.
Good Luck!!!
2007-01-29 12:03:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try both and maybe it will dawn on you.
2007-01-29 12:05:11 · answer #7 · answered by Wendi lu who 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋