day, but it really seems to be going by quick.
2007-07-22 05:45:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I do have the same feeling, but I guess it is related to the way we use our time nowadays. If you sit in front of the TV for sometime, perhaps watching a soap opera or a silly movie, you'll find out that you lost 2 or 2 hours without really doing something. If you use the internet, you can spen hours surfing without noticing it. And many other examples. Oue modern society is (over)producing lots of commodities and services, actually more than what we need, and then uses many marketing strategies so that we consume these products. Even when you take a vacation, you ARE consuming a product of the travel agency. That's why our time is stuffed. We have to consume these products, or the global econoy will collapse.
2007-07-22 05:54:34 · answer #1 · answered by Ahmed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's actually 23 hours and 56 minutes in a day. When you account for the Earth's movement around the Sun it becomes 24 hours. Your subjective impression is just that — subjective.
2007-07-22 12:52:44 · answer #2 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are not alone in that idea. It seems with each passing day the time that I've to live grows shorter and shorter... maybe the earths orbit is going faster as well?
2007-07-22 13:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by yukari 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is really just the way we perceive time because each new day is a smaller fraction of our whole life. (ex. as a newborn one day is 100% of our life.) Or imagine it like Stephen Hawking puts it, it has to do with ratio. If you are 6 months old one hour is 1:4032 of your life, if you are forty one hour is 1:349,440 of your life. Hence each day is a progressivley smaller portion of our life and it gives the illusion that time is going faster.
2007-07-22 13:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by Cheneysmiles 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well.it seems that time is going faster but it is actually because our daily activities are increasing trmendously.initially we used to work only for a few hours like five or so.....but today we work like 24/7..not precisely but close.cuz of this we dont even notice how much time we are utilising in doing this work.so time seems to fly by.but the truth is the time is going in its usual pace.its only us that are using our time faster.
2007-07-22 13:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by silver 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's true, time IS speeding up. The day now is only about 16 hours.
2007-07-22 13:28:49 · answer #6 · answered by nolajazzyguide 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed at which time passes is all relative.
"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."
--Albert Einstein
2007-07-22 13:01:50 · answer #7 · answered by gamblin man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Study the moon for two months, and you will notice a lot of things we learned in school is not true. The earth do not spin around the sun , the sun moves around the earth. Think about this , if the earth was rotating than it will take you longer or short distance to fly from one place to another. Earth rotating right, and you are flying right to your destination, but your destination is on the earth moving from you.
2007-07-22 13:52:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Time is strictly a man-made concept and is relative. Time goes very slowly when you've put your hand on a hot stove, but time goes very quickly when you're snuggling with your main squeeze.
2007-07-22 12:54:03 · answer #9 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Age doesn't matter. My whole family believes it. You know it is when the kids say the days are going too fast. I don't remember EVER saying that when I was a kid. And rainy days always lasted forever--not anymore!!
2007-07-22 12:53:37 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋