Time?

[ChrisJSY]

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

Yeah other than the fact that our heart-rates are not always at a constant, like when you excerise, for example.

Christ, some people.

 

[manic111]

But time doesn't exist?

I was thinking of sticking a post in SC about this actually. May do that sometime

It really depends what school of scientific and philosophical thought you come from.

 

[Eddie]

Yeah other than the fact that our heart-rates are not always at a constant, like when you excerise, for example.

Christ, some people.

You only spend so much time exercising though don't you, I think the heart spends more time at it's natural rate than anything else.

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, what's christ got to do with it?

 

[manic111]

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.

Something tells me you're being serious

 

[Eddie]

Something tells me you're being serious

Whether elephants are actually 'afraid' of mice or not I don't know, but it is said that the elephant only sees the mouse when the mouse stands still.

It's like the fly being able to evade the swipe, it can do it because it sees you moving a lot slower than you see yourself moving.

 

[banja]

Just flame the blighter with a lighter and a can of Lynx. That's we did.

 

[Energize]

Just use some nerve gas.

 

[Vegetarian]

There was an experiment with time...

2 atomic clocks sync'ed to the same time. Put one on the ground and the other on a fighter jet traveling at top speed at high altitude. After a few hours the one on the ground was faster than the one in the air.

 

[Raymond Lin]

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

MY understanding is that when you are young, say 5 years old, a year would be 20% of your life. So it feels forever for next christmas to come.

Now what i am almost 30, a year is 3% of my total life so far so as a whole, it's a small part and feels quicker.

 

[Ciphon]

I've never been able to catch flies! I'll try the thing from 2 different directions... Maybe you used both hands when you were younger, now just one hand?

 

[Adsta]

I do dislike time

 

[nikebee]

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

It's true, it's due to the gravitational pull is stronger the closer to the middle of the Earth you get. So you do infact age less the higher up you go.

That said, it of course is no where near enough to be noticeable and isn't anywhere near strong enough to make you have more or less time

I've been reading "Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe" recently... written by Marcus Chown, it's a very interesting book. You can pick it up for about £4 or so

 

[4T5]

You may be slower in body but you are quicker in mind.
A fly takes off up & backwards like a jump jet.
To catch one you move your hand about 6 inches above it from behind & when it takes off it flys into your hand.
All you have to do is close your hand.
Don't ask me where I learnt it but Yes I was very bored at the time

 

[ChrisJSY]

You may be slower in body but you are quicker in mind.
A fly takes off up & backwards like a jump jet.
To catch one you move your hand about 6 inches above it from behind & when it takes off it flys into your hand.
All you have to do is close your hand.
Don't ask me where I learnt it but Yes I was very bored at the time

Or just pounce it, if you're quick enough.
Karate Kid style.

 

[Galaxy]

Horizon: Do You Know What Time It Is?
Sadly it doesn't answer your question, but it's interesting and relevant to some replies.

 

[whitecrook]

There is a thought that as we age our perception of time changes, due to the fact that as we literally spend more time being alive by living, each forthcoming unit of time is a proportionally smaller amount of your life as a whole. So a child who is 2, one day of time is 1/720th of their life. To someone who is thirty one day is ~ 1/10000th of their life. This can be used to explain perceptions of time, and relative estimates of time.

 

[Angilion]

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

It's true, but the difference is negligable. Time is affected by mavity and mavity is greater at your legs than your head (unless you're lying down or upside down), but the difference is infinitesimal. If there was a significant difference, the varying rate of the passage of time would probably be the least of your worries before you died.

 

[Fuzz]

but you're still missing the point that time does not exist..

It doesn't matter that "time" is running faster at you legs than your head, because we made it up....

Come to think of it, and without looking it up, I thought the stronger the mavity, the slower the time... Not faster.

Work to do now so no time to go searching for it..

 

[Witor]

MY understanding is that when you are young, say 5 years old, a year would be 20% of your life. So it feels forever for next christmas to come.

Now what i am almost 30, a year is 3% of my total life so far so as a whole, it's a small part and feels quicker.

There is a thought that as we age our perception of time changes, due to the fact that as we literally spend more time being alive by living, each forthcoming unit of time is a proportionally smaller amount of your life as a whole. So a child who is 2, one day of time is 1/720th of their life. To someone who is thirty one day is ~ 1/10000th of their life. This can be used to explain perceptions of time, and relative estimates of time.

This.

 

[lmfy2k]

fly catching gets better with age, trust me...