klaatu

Do you feel time is passing by at a higher speed than before?
I have talked to others and it seems I am not alone having this feeling. Iap one day is still one day but it seems to fly so fast ( I don't manage to do what I was used to do in a day).

In my childhood a day was an entire vacation, time to explore so many things ... I have put also a poll to see if I am really alone or not in this.

Some say is a 2012 thing, like time will accelerate ( now a day is only 16 hours from a previous day but all is going faster - watches included - so we don't see it but we feel it)
On 2012 time will stop and we will enter in new era for Earth and us. Can be ... you never know.

Stardust

First - I think you will have 100% of answer we all face the acceleration of time . I read your post and instantly hear in my mind grandma saying „ooohh with age the time will fly to you so don’t be so inpatient and enjoy the moment” . She was also saying the most precious thing you can steal from the other man is exactly the time..

I bet we all have the feeling that whenever trying to give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up… so … if anybody marked something different than “I Agree” – he most probably missed the proper button J or is under 10 y.o ; )

But wish to share with you some wisdom upon how different time might be: “ How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on” (or something like that ; ). So at the end it’s a matter of place and perception

SO instead of making Klaatu’s quiz which will have obvious outcome (sorry Klaatu - it would be nice to wonder more broadly what perception of time has our potential Outer space Visitors… and hope that if they are here – they will not wait “till the last day” to pass the lesson, that for us, humans, time was what we wanted most, but... what we use worst.

PS …I would write more – but you now, Im missing time for longer write

niccintahoe

I myself, have noticed that I get a lot more done and hardly any time has passed. It is like a time warp for me. My day to day life is very routine when I am at work. Even driving is different for me. I do not speed but am finding myself never late...even when I should be.

I do feel that as an adult our time is measured differently because of our responsibilities. As children we did not have dreadful bills and deadlines...I think that when we have to come up with something (ie. $$) time does come a lot quicker because we 'feel' the lack of time and money to meet the deadline. That is when time controls us. Children don't have that perception yet...so they control time (until it is 'time' to eat veggies, take a bath, and go to bed )and relish every bit of play.

Time is an illusion anyway, right? So, everyone will experience it differently...depending (as Stardust so beautifullly put it!) on what side of the bathroom door we're on.

Wait until you experience multi-dimensional time...now there is a trip!

klaatu

niccintahoe welcome to VA and I hope you will enjoy interesting topics! We just started (not even launched... )
I agree that time is an illusion. A ilusion we all share.

BTW what do you mean by multi-dimensional time?

Carson

I'm not sure but he/she may reffer to a time as in Gerard Klein's "Senior of War". It may be a good explanation but the real belongs to the author.
Please, don't forget that "time" was made (invented) by people for their desire to quantify something and to measure something that maybe for "others" is quite stupid and meaningless.

Thuringwethil

I can not agree that people inveted time

You suggesting that before people learn how to mesure time, it hasn't exist? (invention=creation of something, what wasn't before) what is obvously not true.. In same way you can say that people "invented" lenght and hight, but no, space would exists even you wouldn't be able to mesure it.
And take into consideration that we mesure only 4 dimensions but probably there is countless number of them - but others we are not able to mesure... now. It doesn't mean that they aren't exists. Time is just a name of one of dimension we can mesure... bu OK for E.T time can be meaningless - but honestly do not think so, maybe they will just have other perception of it.

klaatu

Welcome to VA , I google your name
It appear you think very Pythagorean when current development in physics has a different approach. It appear that the observer is modifying the object observed thus when no observer exists object observed might be different than what we observe.

Simply put is possible that ourselves perceive time and distances and in other dimensions is totally different.

Admitting there might be other dimensions then is also possible that time and space as we know it exist as only for our perception and is not there actually as imagine.

A long day today makes me "heavy" in communication (as I am not able to follow myself easy ).

Thuringwethil

Not really Pythagorean, I'm fully aware of new physics approach But admit is really abstraction one

no worries, more-less cath your point of view

klaatu

"One of the earliest, and most famous, discussions of the nature and experience of time occurs in the autobiographical Confessions of St Augustine. Augustine was born in Numidia (now Algeria) in 354 AD, held chairs in rhetoric at Carthage and Milan, and become Bishop of Hippo in 395. He died in 430. As a young adult, he had rejected Christianity, but was finally converted at the age of 32. Book XI of the Confessions contains a long and fascinating exploration of time, and its relation to God. During the course of it Augustine raises the following conundrum: when we say that an event or interval of time is short or long, what is it that is being described as of short or long duration? It cannot be what is past, since that has ceased to be, and what is non-existent cannot presently have any properties, such as being long. But neither can it be what is present, for the present has no duration. (For the reason why the present must be regarded as durationless ...) In any case, while an event is still going on, its duration cannot be assessed.
Augustine's answer to this riddle is that what we are measuring, when we measure the duration of an event or interval of time, is in the memory. From this he derives the radical conclusion that time itself (or, at least, the past and future) is something in the mind. While not following Augustine all the way to his theory of the subjectivity of time, we can concede that the perception of temporal duration is crucially bound up with memory. It is some feature of our memory of the event (and perhaps specifically our memory of the beginning and end of the event) that allows us to form a belief about its duration. This process need not be described, as Augustine describes it, as a matter of measuring something wholly in the mind. Arguably, at least, we are measuring the event or interval itself, a mind-independent item, but doing so by means of some psychological process." more...


Biologists traditionally divide our timekeeping abilities into three domains:


1. circadian rhythms, which control things such as sleep and wakefulness over the 24-hour period.
2. "interval timing" is the middle ground - the seconds-to-minutes range -
3. millisecond timing, which is involved in fine motor tasks.



This is the system through which we consciously perceive the passage of time.
Until recently, interval timing was something of a psychological backwater, says John Wearden of Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. While the biological basis of the circadian and millisecond clocks were fairly well understood, no one could find the biological stopwatch we use for interval timing. As a result, many thought that perception of time was little more than a side effect of general cognition and refused to see it as a discipline in its own right. But now, parts of the brain have been singled out as being specialised for timekeeping, and we are getting tantalising glimpses of what it is that makes us tick.

Getting in The zone:

"MIKE HALL has taught himself to stretch time. He uses his powers to make him a better squash player. "It's hard to describe, but it's a feeling of stillness, like I'm not trapped in sequential time any more," he says. "The ball still darts around, but it moves around the court at different speeds depending on the circumstances. It's like I've stepped out of linear time."
Hall, a sports coach from Edinburgh, UK, is talking about a state of mind known as "the zone". He puts his abilities down to 12 years of studying the martial art t'ai chi, and now makes a living teaching other sportspeople how to "go faster by going slower".
For most people, getting into "the zone" at work or home isn't a realistic option. But the idea of stretching time - or at least having more control over its frantic pace - is an attractive one." more...


"When a person's life is in danger, a phenomenon known as 'time-dilation' can occur. This is when, during a car crash for example, time seems to slow down or become frozen.
In these cases the body's internal clock speeds up when facing a potential catastrophe, so that it can take in more information more quickly and function more effectively in an emergency.
This is also a phenomenon actively sought by elite sportspeople, when they get 'in the zone'."



To conclude this I guess that time is relative for each species like for Trovanti, star fish, the human and the fly time is perceive totally different from one another. Even for same human time can vary in flowing according to our activities and state of being (we think we brush our teeth for ages when we probably don't pass 40 sec, and if we enjoy our holiday is always much shorter than same period at work )

klaatu

More support for time acceleration http://www.voxalien.com/prophecies-2...r-none#post402

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