A we age time appears shorter to us ,whereas to a child time appears endless,is this inverse time dilation?

Answer 1

Time appears to go faster because when you think of all the time that has passed, you tend to remember the same number or fewer signposts and count them for your sense of time.

Answer 2

Also as a child we are always operating on someone else's time schedule. We are told what to do, when to do it, and are always preparing for the next event in our lives. No matter if it is bed time, or getting up for school.
As an adult we make our own time table, if we dont like getting up in the morning we can get another job - a second shift, for example.
This is why a child never has enough time to do it all - they always only have so much time until they have to do the next event.
An adult don't see this perspective any more, if they don't like the schedule they can change it. Once we retire, we have even more flexibility in our schedules - more time to do fewer things.
A way of seeing this is an inverse relationship between the perception of time left, and the things to do.
A child has much to do but little time to do it, and elderly person it is the opposite, few things and lots of time to do it.

Answer 3

The older we get, the more time has passed, so the smaller percentage of our total lives each day takes up. Also, to a child, everything is new and has to be studied and puzzled out. Remember school? Study and puzzling are hard work, requiring focus and determination, and taking a lot of time. For older folks, even those who make it a point to continue learning all their lives, most of life is routine, and only substantial departures from the ordinary earn our attention, and then only for a short while, until we fit those events into the overall pattern we discern.

Answer 4

In a true sense, time is relative...even at the psychological level. Youth is impatient; so time seems to drag by. Old is mellowed out, not impatient; so time seens to go by fast. It's that simple. You can read more about the subject in the cited source. [See source.]

Youth is impatient because there are so many things to do and try, yet so little time to do them in. Old has been there, done that; so there is plenty of time to do the last few things on the 1,000 things to do before I die list.

In sum, we do see time spans differently depending on our developmental age. (Some of us never grow up.)

Answer 5

This is everything to do with the subjective appreciation of the passage of time. "Time flies when you're having fun", its true. Its also true that a mind numbing detention, doing absolutely nothing, stretches out for hours in your mind. However the time itself doesn't change, only your perception of it.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Lorentz transformations and the type of time dilation due to relative velocities. That is the real stretching of time due to relativity effects.

Answer 6

What you are talking of is subjective time and it differs from objective time of a watch and has no relation to the dilation effects caused by relativistic effects at velocities approaching the velocity of light in vacuum.

Answer 7

When you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your entire life. When you are 50, 1 year is 2% of your life.

Answer 8

As children we don't have a sense of our own mortality. As we age, we begin to take that into account and feel that "our time is running out".

Answer 9

a minute is 60 seconds always has been, so its a matter of ones perspective

Answer 10

Time flys when your having fun.