Relative speed of time

[capt jake]

When I read Margos topic, it got me thinking about time.

I have noticed recently that time is seeming to pass more quickly. In the blink of an eye, the kids are grown and grandchildren are now wandering the halls.

Is it just me, or does time have the appearance of passing quicker the older we get?

[crawdaddyjim50]

They have actually done a study on this topic. Time seems to go by faster due to the fact that as you age you have more responsibilities and pressures of life.

[ssor]

No! it doesn't speed up. The first half of your life seems longer because the second half IS shorter. ;)

[Rick Tyler]

My old friend Jay calls it the Christmas Relativity Proof:

When you are 7, it seems like 10 years until the next Christmas.

When are 15, it takes 3 years.

When you are 25, it takes a year.

By the time you are 50, Christmas comes every three months.

At 80, it's always Christmas.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

You old guys are confusing me. :D

Actually, a customer of mine who is an ex Herc pilot with the Canadian forces told me this analogy:

Age and time are like a whirlpool... The outer rim is large, and you take a long time to go around one revolution... as you age the circle gets smaller and tighter, until the years fly by... and you get drawn into the vortex of eternity. ;)

[ 12-12-2005, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Peter Malcolm Jardine ]

[landlocked sailor]

It's all relative proportions. The younger you are the greater proportion of your whole life is tied up in every day; when you're 5, next Christmas is a full 20% of your whole life span, 10% when you're 10 and so on. By the time you are 75, it's only 3/4 of 1% between one Christmas and the next!! (and birthdays too! ) ;) Bummer. Merry Christmas, Rick

[huisjen]

Einstein once explained his complex ideas about time by offering this example: "When you have a pretty girl sitting on your lap, an hour seems like a second; when you're sitting on a hot stove, a second seems like an hour."

[Meerkat]

How about the timing of your relatives arriving? ;) :D

[Billy Bones]

Yes, well, speaking of which I'm off to the airport. Living in "America's Paradise" has its....ummmm....errrr......quirks, shall we say.

[Alan D. Hyde]

:D

Alan