Time?

Vegetarian · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:10

For the last 5 mins Ive been chasing a fly round the room trying to kill it... got biggles in the end! Anyway brought back some memorys when I was 5 years old - I was able to easily catch flys with my hands and pull their legs off...

In age do we see things slower? Like time slows down compaired to a child or small animal?

Bennie-Mac · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:12

Surely you mean time speeds up?

Camalot · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:13

Bullet time ?

OT - It's probably your reaction time.

V4NT0M · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:15

Never understood why people chase these things around, why expend the energy just get it when it lands close to you or forget about it until it dies.l

Strife212 · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:18

Because it makes an irritating sound

Azagoth · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:19

No, the flys are younger, so ergo they're quicker than you Grandad.

Ascendancy · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:23

You can easily catch flies if you come at them from 2 different directions at the same time, it confuses them.

J.B · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:44

Well (and I may be wrong)....
when we are close to the ground time theoreticly goes slower than when we are high up because we are further away from a large gravatational object.

Not sure if thats write or something I just made up :confused:

Buffman · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:47

J.B said:
Well (and I may be wrong)....
when we are close to the ground time theoreticly goes slower than when we are high up because we are further away from a large gravatational object.

Not sure if thats write or something I just made up

so my legs experience time faster than my head? Doesn't sound right tbh.. Although I've been wrong before :confused:

ChrisJSY · 21 Dec 2008 at 17:52

Vegetarian said:
In age do we see things slower? Like time slows down compaired to a child or small animal?

No.
You reaction time, mostly.. slows down.
But at 5 I don't think your motor functions would be tip top either

Eddie · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:08

My understanding of it is that when you're young your heart beats faster, you move faster, the days pass slower. The older you get the slower your heart beats, you move slower, meaning your days pass quicker.

The elephant’s heart beats really slowly, the mouse’s heart beats really fast, that's why an elephant is frightened of a mouse, it only sees the mouse when the mouse stands still.

It's similar with your fly, the fly sees you move slowly all the time but the younger you are the quicker you can move, therefore the easier you catch the fly. When you get older you slow down giving the fly even more reaction time to evade your swipes.

It's something crazy like that anyway

PMKeates · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:11

shoot1st said:
The older you get the slower your heart beats, you move slower, meaning your days pass quicker.

There's things that can help with that.

neoboy · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:11

Yeah time seems to fly faster now and I'm only 21.

Eddie · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:28

PMKeates said:
There's things that can help with that.

Depending on what it is, you can either speed your heart up or slow it down.

neoboy said:
Yeah time seems to fly faster now and I'm only 21.

A popular saying you often hear around this time of year is ''christmas seems to have come early this year'' or ''last christmas only seems like five minutes ago doesn't it''. The reason is that your perception of time has changed compared to what it was when you were younger, and it changes slightly as each year passes, each year gets shorter.

Christmas seems to take forever to come round when you're five or something, but when you get older you just get one christmas out the way and there's another one before you know it.

A sign you're getting older (and that you're turning into your dad) is that you find yourself saying those things.

Fuzz · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:30

But time doesn't exist?

Eddie · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:34

nokinidea said:
But time doesn't exist?

I don't know enough about time to know for definite whether it does or doesn't.

Fuzz · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:36

Clocks exist..

PMKeates · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:46

shoot1st said:
Depending on what it is, you can either speed your heart up or slow it down.

Up's more fun. My resting heat rate is on the low side - around 55-60 BPM - if it gets any lower I'll probably pass out and time will stop altogether

Eddie · 21 Dec 2008 at 18:54

PMKeates said:
Up's more fun. My resting heat rate is on the low side - around 55-60 BPM - if it gets any lower I'll probably pass out and time will stop altogether

It depends what I'm doing, sometimes I like my heart beating faster, sometimes I like it beating slower.

I do think I have more fun when my heart beats faster though, now that I think about it

Cybermyk · 21 Dec 2008 at 19:15

I'd have thought that looking up to the fly with a white ceiling may have given you an advantage when chasing it.

Either that or flys have evolved skillz