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Today went by so quickly it's strange and disconcerting.
Other days the minutes lumber and plod like huge, dumb animals numbing my senses.
Why is this? I was not inordinately busy or non-busy today. It was like, your typical day here.
So what affects our perception of time and why is that perception so often different in the same setting?
Sprite
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
PF: Thanks for a great tune.
every day older I get the years seem to blip by faster and faster and faster (I think it's a perspective issue, balancing against the rest of your life) but goddamn it is already the MIDDLE OF JULY! It wasn't that long ago that I was skiing and stuff was it?
Time is probably not constant.
One way of looking at special relativity is that time is accelerating.
Another wasy to look at time is that it's actually not even continuous, possibly just a set of essentially disconnected events. There's some physics research going on about this.
They laughed at relativity too.
one of his best songsQuote:
Originally Posted by schindlerpiste
Doesn't interaction between perceptors of time - ie people - kinda throw that in the garbage, Buster? Then all of us would have a fast day, a slow day, or whatever - we wouldn't be able to be on separate loops or in our own wharps, could we?
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
If time is accelerating and time is continuous, there's no "outside" referent to tell us any different.
If time is more discrete, and disjointed it's could be like traffic shuffling, where our own private time bubbles only intersect often enough to convince us that there's a continuum. You pass me, I pass you, etc, so we're basically in the same locus and we just don't know any better.
We already know that time is most definately not constant. The speed of light is constant, which means that neither time nor space can be.
Relatively definately.Quote:
Originally Posted by grrrr
It is my firm belief that we do not truely begin to age until we have children. Until then, time unfolds slowly, exquisitely, and in abundance. With the arival of the little ones we are suddenly face to face with irrefutable evidence of the passage of time as our children grow... and just as this settles in, the demand on our suddenly fast moving time increase expontially as our childrens activities increase with age.
On the flip side, we also get to watch the lil rippers tear it up!
Wouldn't trade it for the world.:D
How can speed be constant and yet time not be when speed is a measure of distance over time?Quote:
Originally Posted by grrrr
If the speed you're talking about is of the mind-altering form, time can most definitely take some interesting twists.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcsquared
SeeQuote:
Originally Posted by mcsquared
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/th...elativity.html .
or
http://www.einsteinyear.org/facts/special_relativity
or
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines...6/secret.html#
If you assume the speed of light is constant, then neither time nor distance are.
There's a really good explanation in "Special Relativity For Idiots" but I lost mine.
Such a great albumQuote:
Originally Posted by mc_roon
I've firmly believed this for a long time. Too many weird time-related coincidences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
How do we measure time's speeding up or slowing down without an outside reference?
Also, if The Speed of Light is constant and thusly Time and Distance are not, is the corollary that if Time or Distance are constant the Speed of light is not? How do we know which is fact and which is douchenozzling?
time to start looking your idiots cage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
You don't. Use the Lorenz transformation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
You can come to that conclusion.Quote:
Also, if The Speed of Light is constant and thusly Time and Distance are not, is the corollary that if Time or Distance are constant the Speed of light is not?
The douche nozzle is omnipotent. It transcends measure and sight but not smell.Quote:
How do we know which is fact and which is douchenozzling?
Wake up, got another day to get through now
Got another man to see
Got to call him on the telephone
Got to find a piece of paper
Sit down, got another letter to write
Think Ill got to get the letter just right
Theres a ringing on the telephone
Oh no, got to write a little later
No such day as tomorrow, only one two three go!
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head
If I tell you what Im doing today
Will you shut up and get out of my way?
Someone asked me what the time is,
I dont know
Only know I gotta go now
No time - trying to get a watch repaired
No time - never got a thing to wear
Hear the ringin of the telephone no no
Hear a ringin in my head now
No such thing as tomorrow, only one two three go!
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head
That's ^ the song I got in my brain when I started reading this thread.
yeah, it immediately popped into mine, and it was jarring to read the lyrics schindlerpiste posted, for some reason that didn't occur to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by weibo
Time Has Come Today
(W. Chambers/J.Chambers)
Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
And I don't care what the others say
'Cause they say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today, Hey!
The rules have changed today, Hey!
I have no place to stay, Hey!
And I'm thinkin' about the subway, Hey!
Love has gone away, Hey!
And tears have come and gone, Hey!
Oh my God, I have to run, Hey!
I have no home, Hey!
I have no home, Hey!
Now the time has come, Time!
There's no place to run, Time!
Might get burned up by the sun, Time!
Well, I've had my fun, Time!
Well, I've been loved and put aside, Time!
And I've been crushed by tumblin' tide, Time!
And my soul's be psychedelicized, Time!
Now the time has come, Time!
There are things to realize, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time!
Now the time has come, Time!
There are things to realize, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time!
Now the time has come, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Yeah!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
I'm still trying to figure out when the stupid train from Topeka headed east is going to meet the train from St. Louis headed West.
However, some new thinking actually states that the speed of light may change over time...Quote:
Originally Posted by grrrr
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092.html
I saw a program on TV that had a cool theory about time perception. Their theory was that the faster the heartbeat, the slower everything seems to go. FOr old people, time flies by, because they have a slower hartrate than youg people. For small kids, 10 minutes can be an eternity, and their heart beat fast all the time. Insects like flies for example, has heart that beats superfast, and they see our hand trying to slap them in slow motion and always fly away.
Same day, time perception changes...
I got home from work and time suddenly sloooowwwed down like a ski on grass. Last night seemed like an entire weekend to me!
Here's a list of some of the things I had time for:
*called some lawn repair places
*Wandered around the yard for a while
*biked to liquor store w/ my husband, picked up 2 bottles of wine, leisurely ride home thru the burbs
*prepared and had dinner
*Visited with my sister
*took a 2.5 hour nap
*read 3 National Geographic articles
*Watched the Daily Show and some show about this poor girl trying to lose weight
*Wrestled w/ the hubby for a while ;)
*Showered
*Walked up the street to get my white cat who has recently taken up residence with the neighbors for some reason
*Went to sleep
This was like the never-ending night! So the day flew by and the night dragged by (but not in a bad way). That is how I perceived it anyway.
Other nights, I feel like I get home from work and look up and it's 11pm. Where did the time go?
I'm still perplexed about this issue.
It's now 9:22 a.m. and I think today isn't going to be a "dragger" either. But when it comes to time, you just have to wait and see.
Sprite
You ever notice that when you get into a theoretical science discussion with Buster you get homework? :D
is that supposed to make sense or are you just bitching and babbling incoherently?Quote:
Originally Posted by cj001f
My vote is for babbling - it's been hot in SoCal, and he probably had a Silicone Transporter walking by his window....Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Time for me tends to slow down and stop when I listen to explanations of relativity.