but do any of you also feel that "time" is going much much faster than it ever used to? what do you think this sense of time going so fast is associated with?
2007-08-23 11:17:32 · 8 answers · asked by waterlily750 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You just get busy as you get older. When you have nothing to do... time seems like forever.
College flies by to me b/c I am focused on getting those homeworks turned and ready to take exams and getting that time sheet turned in. When I get one task done I move on to the next til it is done.
2007-08-23 11:57:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people after the age of ten notice that time seems to be speeding up. Some people think it is because you are starting to accumulate a history of personal events to use to compare things, including the passage of time.
A summer vacation at the age of ten is roughly 3 months of 120, or 2.5 % of your life. By the age of 20 the same 3 months vaction is only 1.25% percent of your life so time may seem to you to be going by twice as fast. To make things worse by the time you are twenty vacations are more likely to be 2 weeks, not 3 months.
It is too depressing to continue the calculations past this point.
2007-08-23 11:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by dougger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As we get older, time does seem to go faster because we are more aware of it. For children, time often stands still.
Personally, I find that the faster I rush around, the faster time goes. In other words, impatience makes time go faster. If I slow down and savor each moment, really be "in the moment", time goes much slower and I have more of it.
Hope this makes sense to you. We live in such a fast-paced world, that, yes, times is whizzing right by us.
2007-08-23 11:27:20 · answer #3 · answered by Marley K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is all relative to the way you live your life. Time can either go fast or slow depending on how much you like what you are doing at that specific time.
You have heard the phrase, "Time flies when you are having fun." Well, that is true, but on the same token, time practically slows to a crawl when you hate what you are doing.
Having fun on your weekends, and going to work-think about that.
2007-08-23 13:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Note: I was writing this the same time that Douger was - great minds think alike.
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It is very possible that you are completely nuts - but not because time seems to be going faster.
Most of the other answers are more or less correct.
I would like to provide a more physical answer.
First, we understand the size of things only relative to other things. Similarly, we only understand the size of a year relative to other years we have experienced.
When we are five - we have just spent the past year experiencing one fifth of our entire life - and probalby one half of the entire life that we can remember. The year seems to take up half of our known life.
When we are 25 - we have just spent the past year experiencing four percent of our life - and perhaps five percent of the life that we can remember. A year seems like only five percent of our known life. Five percent of a five year old's known life, on the other hand, took around five weeks. So, a year to us seems live five weeks to a five year old - that is alot faster for the year to go.
And so on - the years just start flying by, the older we are, because each year seems so much smaller in comparison with the sum total of our experiences.
We experience it psychologically - yes - but there is a reason underlying the psycholigical differences.
2007-08-23 11:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to a quote by a sophisticated, 19th century philosopher, you must be enjoying life so much (or are just so busy) that you don't realize where time went.
Quote: "Time flies when your having fun"
There is a link below which shows a study where "Scientists Prove Time Flies ...."
2007-08-23 11:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by heeboy3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As you get older you get more involved in the daily workings of life , things you would not be involved in as a child {i.e. bills mortgage, work, socializing, sports, car tax , ins ,on & on & on}.
suddenly your 24hours seems to be 2.4 hours welcome to life .
My father said to me , make the most of your youth as it will be down hill from then on & it will go so fast.
I see what he means
2007-08-23 11:31:37 · answer #7 · answered by freezemuthatruckers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a consequence of aging.
2007-08-23 11:22:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, to your first question
No, to your second question
2007-08-23 11:28:48 · answer #9 · answered by Jeffrey K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋