is time linear?

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is time linear or is there some truth in the old saying time speeds up as you get older and most people agree time does seem to go faster the older you get don't they? what if time is speeding up what does that even mean will it increase at an exponential rate?


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From our point of view as we exist on this planet perception of the passng of time changes depending on circumstance, the time is still passing at the same rate.
 
When you're 10 years old 1 year is 10% of your total life so far, so it feels longer than say if you're 25 because a passing year is only 4% of your total life.
 
Six6siX said:
So what you're saying is that a watch on someone's wrist goes faster the older the person wearing it is?
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Not exactly related to your age, but as you get taller, time will go faster. (by a very tiny amount as you're in lower mavity then when you were shorter)
 
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time is persieved by older people to being going faster due to repetition, when you are younger you only go.to school and even that is not for a long time, the rest of the time you can do whatever you like, when you get older you get in to a repetitive lifestyle, eat, sleep and work, occasionally you mix it up a bit but not.enough to change the repetition of life
 
Since time is an abstract defined by our perception of the passing of events, if we perceive these events to happen more frequently, then by it's very definition, time is indeed passing more rapidly.

Take for example 1 year. Although the length of a year is solidly defined, as we grow older, we perceive that years occur more rapidly. Because of the solid definition of the duration of a year, the only plausible explanation for the increase in frequency is that, time is in fact speeding up.
 
I think its just that if your 5, a year is a fifth of everything you have experienced, so a year seemed like an age, when your 40, its a 40th, it certainly does appear to speed up every year, they start ticking over at an alarming rate when you hit your 30's, the last decade for me has gone by in the blind of an eye.
 
if time is speeding up how would you be able lo tell within our short life times? is this why athletes are getting gradually faster due to the fast time is speeding up? does this affect our life spam compared lo our ancient cousins?
 
touch said:
Not exactly related to your age, but as you get taller, time will go faster. (by a very tiny amount as you're in lower mavity then when you were shorter)
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If we had a tall person vs a short person running a 100m race, each finishing at exactly the same time to an observer. They each wear a watch synchronized at exactly the same height before the race. Would the taller person's watch show a different time after the race had finished?

Also, would the observer record a different time if he were standing higher up?
 
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