Time moving faster?

[destrekor]

Is time moving faster for everyone else?

A rough, preliminary, wildly insufficient, and highly circumspect sampling of data and polling among local acquaintances suggests that, properly postulated and pushed beyond any sane logical limit, there is room for a new theory which thusly states time is moving faster for everyone everywhere.

Ease your pitchforks! Now yes it sounds preposterous and likely is just that. But settle down, for this is but a journey in the data collection. It may prove to be all a bunch of hogwash, but unequally as likely is the chance that this baseless hunch is on the right track.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yes and I find it's actually kind of depressing, because it feels like my life is just a race against the clock and that there's not enough time left before I end up rotting in an old age home. I wish it would slow down. Like even when working on projects I find the time goes by so fast I have to actually hurry up if I want to finish it in any decent amount of time. What feels like an hour is really a whole day. What feels like a whole day is actually a week, etc.

 

[local]

I don't know. By percentage my kids are getting older much faster than I am.

 

[ImpulsE69]

The older you get the faster time goes. Read up on it, it's a real perception due to how your mind interprets old and new things.

 

[13Gigatons]

For me yes definitely...I'm already in 2044

Someone know where the brakes are?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Nah. Slowing down. I live a year or more in a day now. It was nice for a while, but now it's kinda boring. I work, sleep, eat, read, sleep a bit more, eat some more, go for a walk, eat sleep. And then it's the next day, same as the one before.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea. I especially think of it around jul, cause the time comes and goes so fast. When I was a kid, time moved glacially. Seemed like it took forever before jul came around after starting a school year. Once the season started, it stayed around awhile. Now, everything happens fast. Goes from halloween-thaksgiving-jul in what seems like a month. The shortest day's come and gone, and the bad times of heat, ticks, and mosquitoes will be here soon :^(

 

[SKORPI0]

Time is an illusion..... everyone knows this.

 

[highland145]

 

[zinfamous]

Time moves at the speed that I determine it to move.

Are you complaining, OP?

 

[BoomerD]

Some days (usually those shitty days at work) seem to take forever to get through, while others seem to fly by. As I get older, even though there are slooooooooow days, the years seem to pass quicker and quicker.

(Once you have children, the years seem to pass MUCH more quickly)
For me, it USUALLY seems like I got married last week...but it's actually been almost 44 years.
Damn...44 years into a life sentence...

 

[highland145]

Some days (usually those shitty days at work) seem to take forever to get through, while others seem to fly by. As I get older, even though there are slooooooooow days, the years seem to pass quicker and quicker.

(Once you have children, the years seem to pass MUCH more quickly)
For me, it USUALLY seems like I got married last week...but it's actually been almost 44 years.
Damn...44 years into a life sentence...

Give your wife my sympathies.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The fact that "you are an idiot" is not running away with the poll is proof that this place is just a shadow of its former self.

 

[highland145]

The fact that "you are an idiot" is not running away with the poll is proof that this place is just a shadow of its former self.

Happier?

 

[BudAshes]

Reminds me of a classic Mitch Hedberg quote:

My friend said to me "I think the weather's trippy."
I said "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy."
Then I thought "Man, I should have just said 'Yeah.'"'

 

[destrekor]

The older you get the faster time goes. Read up on it, it's a real perception due to how your mind interprets old and new things.

Absolutely, there is that. It is of course inconvenient that I may only ask people that have aged forward, so I cannot properly control for inherent biases.

 

[destrekor]

The fact that "you are an idiot" is not running away with the poll is proof that this place is just a shadow of its former self.

I'd like to think it is because they'd rather draw attention to the theory that, yes, time is definitively moving faster. Which leads to this next query: why? how?!

 

[Carson Dyle]

The older you get the faster time goes. Read up on it, it's a real perception due to how your mind interprets old and new things.

IMO, it's nothing to do with how the mind interprets old and new. When you get older, there's just much less that's new. That's not saying there aren't the same number of new things happening out in the world - there are probably quite a few more - but you don't experience them. You meet fewer new people, visit fewer new places, have fewer new experiences. Unless you make a very concerted effort to avoid it.

 

[C1]

re: Is Time Moving Faster?

Maybe.

If you were approaching a black hole and your best friend was far away watching (and could somehow watch “instantly,” without worrying about the time lag from light speed), they would see you approach the black hole, slow down and eventually come to rest to hover outside of it. Through the window of your spaceship, your friend would see you sitting absolutely still.

You, on the other hand, would not notice anything in particular — at least until the intense gravity of the black hole killed you. But until then, it certainly wouldn’t “feel” like time was moving differently. You’d have no idea that as you glide past the black hole’s event horizon (which you possibly wouldn’t even notice), thousands of years were passing outside of the black hole.


Does Light Experience Time?
https://www.universetoday.com/111603/does-light-experience-time/

How to Slow Down Time
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-empowerment-diary/201705/how-slow-down-time

 

[Exterous]

The fact that "you are an idiot" is not running away with the poll is proof that this place is just a shadow of its former self.

I didn't even read the entire OP. I saw that was an option and that was all I needed to know

 

[snoopy7548]

Time doesn't move, jackass.

 

[Mai72]

Is time an illusion? Yes. Think about it. Time is a construct that was made by man. During Washington's time did they worry about time? Doubt it.

Anyway, check out the shortness of life, by Seneca.

 

[iCyborg]

The older you get the faster time goes. Read up on it, it's a real perception due to how your mind interprets old and new things.

I heard that too, I never bothered looking up the actual source behind it - I mean the idea that our subjective perception of how fast time passes is inversely proportional to our age. The rationale is that when you're 10, one year represents 10% of your whole life, and at 50 it's only 2%. Sort of makes sense and it's not much off from how I feel.

 

[PowerEngineer]

I heard that too, I never bothered looking up the actual source behind it - I mean the idea that our subjective perception of how fast time passes is inversely proportional to our age. The rationale is that when you're 10, one year represents 10% of your whole life, and at 50 it's only 2%. Sort of makes sense and it's not much off from how I feel.

Yes, this does seems to be in line with what I (and others I know) perceive about the passage of time. Back when I was in grade school, the whole three months of summer vacation seemed like an eternity. On entering high school, graduation in four years seemed a lifetime away. Nowadays, it takes a decade of time to give me the same sort of feeling.

But just to be clear, it is our perception of time passing and not the actual passage of time that is changing. My kids enjoyed those eternities of summer vacations when they were in grade school, while I was simultaneously seeing those summers streak by.

 

[destrekor]

Time doesn't move, jackass.

Sure it does! We just tend to move with it because we've positioned ourselves together in time and space; we're all in the same gravity well. That gravity well literally moves through space. Now if you posit that the dimension of time (or dimensions) is a singular stationary plane of coordinates (which it is), you must then accept that while time itself would therefore literally stand still, it is we that move through/past/along its coordinates. Our past would be in the wakes, or eddies, that are left behind as we get hurled through space. As with all things in general relativity it is, as should go without saying, all relative. Time moves, because we physically move.