Nature Of Time

[nailit]

Why does time seem to speed up as you get older?
Everyone I speak to says the same, as you age the years go quicker. Ive read some weird stuff (when I was much younger) about the nature of time but cant remember much, if any, of it now.
And what is that thing about, where the faster you travel the slower time passes? Could never wrap my head around that. We tend to see time as one moment simply following another but its obviously not.
Thanks in advance.

[nailit]

//That doesn't explain why the 6 week school summer holiday lasted for ages though.//
Blimey, it did as well. Went on for ages (or seemed to...)

[237SJ]

OG -Yes, because your mind was thinking ahead, even if you didn't realise it and that changes your mindset

[nailit]

//It seemed to last for ages until it was at an end :-( //
Very true as well!

[ichkeria]

"Just glanced at OG's link and I think it's a pretty good explanation"

Curiously, though, it does not explain the paradox of the twins properly. As described there, it's a curiosity that one twin will have aged more than the other. But the paradox of course involves the notion that relative to each other each twin must be both older and younger than the other.

[ichkeria]

.. or at least it mentions it, but only as an afterthought almost

[Old_Geezer]

Isn't that to do with acceleration rather than velocity ?

Mind you if everything is relative who's to say whether twin A accelerated and decelerated or whether they stayed still and twin B and the rest of the universe did ;-)

[jim360]

Acceleration isn't quite as relative as velocity is :P

(To be precise, no two observers will see an object accelerate in the same way, but all observers will agree whether or not an object is accelerating.)

[nailit]

Oh blimey! I knew when I posted this in 'science' that I would need a pack of headache tablets....
Maybe should have posted in chatterbank and got the 'digest' version?

Have read O-Gs link through twice now. I take my hat off to those of you on here that can wrap their head around this stuff!

[jim360]

Sometimes these things have to make less sense before they make more sense :P

What I mean is that no explanation is ever quite the same as seeing this for yourself. It's rather like trying to appreciate the beauty of Mozart's music by someone reading the score to you -- or to try gazing at the marvels of a Turner masterpiece when someone only shows you the back of the frame.

This isn't easy. Just takes practice, is all (and a sheer bloody-minded determination to understand it!)

[nailit]

You know Jim, I wished I had a science teacher like you when I was in high school. Instead of the blockheads that just forced facts and figures down our throats that we couldn't understand but were expected to regurgitate at exam time. Feel as though ive lost out in the science department.

[nailit]

Read loads of ur posts (without commenting) in the past, always fascinating.

[jim360]

That means a lot to hear, Nailit :)

[nailit]

;-)
heartfelt jim.

[beso]

We tend to notice our "first time" experiences which mostly happen when we are young. As you get older, it has all be done before so there aren't the landmarks of youth.

Go off and do some new "first time" things in your old age and time will appear to slow down.