Einstein theory of relativity

Did old Albert's theory cover why time compresses with age?

Going through my wife's 'bible' the other day (her annual planner, copies going back to the early '80s, she kept saying "guess when it was when we bought this or that or when we decorated the lounge etc".

I was always out by several years, what I was convinced was two years ago turned out to be five, three or four years was seven years etc.

Last year went like 4 months, planning for Christmas was about 3 weeks ago.

What's going on?

When I was younger I used to think that time in my golden years would drift along sleepily and slowly with eternally long days. The real event has turned out to be an escapade of never having time to do everything we planned to do.

Bill D

As one ages any given time period becomes less and less of a percentage of your entire existence and therefore seems shorter.

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 13/02/2017 22:25:16

I could swear I had a bath last week but my wife says it was last October

Neil

I am sure I did more in a day when I was younger than I do now, nowadays I feel that the time passes far quicker than it did then. I know my motivation is less but that I feel is old age and I try to make adjustment for that as I look at something and think, 'Do that tomorrow' but it rains the next day! Putting things down and still seeing them weeks later in the same place? What is that hiatus?

Clive

At twenty years old I went at mach 5 - here now at 70 I am on my fifth mac!

Rik

Time flies like an arrow - Fruit flies like a peach !

(sorry!)

Why did he never find time for a.haircut?

I have long since realised that time speeds up as you get older. Now everything is a rush.

I cannot believe I am 70. I suppose my body does tell me but my mind does not. Sometime soon it will come to an end.

JA

The late dearly lamented Gert used to say to me "When are you going to grow up ? "

I didn't realise it was an option ??

This phenomenon is so universally reported and acknowledged that it is, effectively, true. A contrasting situation would be if you were traveling at relativistic speed, say a space ship at close to the speed of light, you would perceive time normally, yet when you returned to earth you will find yourself in the future. In one case, time is constant but you perceive it speeding up; in the other, your perceive it normally but it is speeding up!

Christmas now comes around so quickly that I have decided to have a tree and decorations only every second year.

"what do you want to be when you grow up Son?"

"Peter Pan".

Einstein believed that time did not exist, there is no time only clocks

Edited By Stephen Benson on 14/02/2017 08:33:22

Consider the quantum multiverse theory that all things and options (variations) happen and it is our individual perception that is limited such that we only experience a limited subset. That subset we also experience with our inherent processing limitation as linear time. Therefore we see our own progression as linear quanta of that timeline in a unary-verse. As we age and mentation slows down that experience cannot process quanta as quickly - hence we skip alliquots along that timebase and skip along apparently traversing faster.

If we heighten our senses.. excercise for instance or if we have a lull in other processing needs (slow day at work, waiting for an appointment) then brain can spare more power to process more of those timeline alliquots - and time appears to slow down again.

School summer holidays were endless, and so was each day. Out in the woods or down the river, come home before it was dark or when you were hungry.

Mike

Hi Bill

General Relativity has nothing to do with it. It's human perception.

There is increasing evidence of a correlation between time perception and stress, google it.

It's also interesting to note that the waking human brain has no perception of how long it had been asleep. All this generally indicates that there is a link between levels of consciousness and time perception. In terms of the old age thing, as has already been muted, you do get that fore-shortening that comes with the nearness of the end compared with the distance of the start. Personally I think we just spend more time dozing and less time doing.

regards Martin

My daughter found somewhere a theory that middle age is somewhere in your twenties because of this perception of time passing faster as you age.

Martin

Ive just reached 70 as well, bloody hell !. I asked a mate when do we finally stop looking at women and he said 97. What a relief.....

I've been thinking about this time thing a lot recently, strange to find it on the forum. My conclusion, for what it's worth, is that it takes much longer to do things as we get older. 20 years ago I could service the car, dig over the veg. plot, then go into the little w/shop and bore a cylinder, then go out for a quick pint., all in a day. Now it takes me half a day just thinking about it. PS @ 75 now.

Old is x + 10 where x is your own age in years.

Martin