04-12-2010, 08:26 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:WOW! Thirty years. Now that makes me feel old. Does time go faster the older you get or does it merely appear this way? I suspect there will be a lot on tv then- all of it lies.Here's my theory on the passage of time thingy FWIW:
For a 15 year old 15 years is a lifetime (to date)
For a 30 year old the previous 15 years is 50% of life to date.
For a 60 year old the same 15 years is a mere 25%. Hence it appears to have passed in half the time.
IOW the older you get the smaller any time increment, as a proportion of life already lived, becomes. The perception therefore is indeed of the passage of time accelerating.
Simple really - appearances can be so deceptive eh?
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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