I noticed that 6 minutes would pass like it'd been six seconds. I noticed that 2 hours would pass by like a few minutes. Is it a mind trick or what?
2007-05-13 12:11:50 · 5 answers · asked by Cecilia 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
A famous quote by Einstein says "Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That's relativity."
If you are paying attention to time passing, and wishing it would go faster and focusing on that every second, then you are more aware of each second so it seems longer. But if you "lose track" of time and have your mind elsewhere, you are much less focussed on the passing of time and it seems to escape from you...
2007-05-13 12:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by The Irish Dragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are active and your mind is engaged in doing something that appeals to you and draws your attention you often lose sense of the time and so it seemed to have gone by faster.
When you are in pain or something that you don't enjoy every second is a throbbing reminder of the time going by.
Just keep your mind involved in the things that you enjoy and make you a better person and time will fly for you.
2007-05-13 12:53:53 · answer #2 · answered by Radzewicz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, this is the thing, when you are little, like 3 or 4, a day or two out of your life is a much larger precentage, and as you get older, the precentage gradually get smaller and smaller, so time seems to go by faster. Its kind of hard to explain, i'm trying to do my best...hm...you know when your really young, and a summer seems like such a long time because up till then its been such a large percentage of your life? well when you get older, these times become more frequent and the percentage becomes smaller. Its like taking a pie, and cutting it in half once, then again, then again and so on. i hope you undersand ;)
2007-05-13 12:25:26 · answer #3 · answered by Kristina M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like* is the keyword. Like* isn't actualy a scientific data to analize something to compare to personal views to you or something else.
Einstein's law predicted that, an object moving time slows down a tiny bit, and staying same place time goes by. Perhaps trying to go outside and go on adventure.
2007-05-13 12:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It IS a mind trick. Sometimes it works the other way too. Just try doing something boring or watching a TV show you despise.
2007-05-13 12:15:35 · answer #5 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋