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Why time flys by as you get older

Unread postby harlanater » Sun 28 Aug 2005, 04:11:51

dear reader,

have you ever noticed that an hour yesterday seems longer than an hour today. This is because that hour today accounts for less of a percentage of your entire life compared to yesterdays hour

the homeless....
"They cover up in their torn sheets
But the frozen arctic still seeps in
They pray out loud to an earless god
That the nocturnal cosmos will generate their ruination"

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Re: Why time flys by as you get older

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 28 Aug 2005, 04:15:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('harlanater', 'd')ear reader,

have you ever noticed that an hour yesterday seems longer than an hour today. This is because that hour today accounts for less of a percentage of your entire life compared to yesterdays hour

the homeless....
"They cover up in their torn sheets
But the frozen arctic still seeps in
They pray out loud to an earless god
That the nocturnal cosmos will generate their ruination"

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grim poem :? for me the years are like days, and then I die.
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Re: Why time flys by as you get older

Unread postby harlanater » Sun 28 Aug 2005, 04:16:24

thanks i made the poem up myself :-D

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Re: Why time flys by as you get older

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 28 Aug 2005, 05:23:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('harlanater', 't')hanks i made the poem up myself :-D

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Re: Why time flys by as you get older

Unread postby Jenab » Wed 31 Aug 2005, 12:30:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('harlanater', 'h')ave you ever noticed that an hour yesterday seems longer than an hour today. This is because that hour today accounts for less of a percentage of your entire life compared to yesterdays hour

That's right. Our experience of time is logarithmic. The apparent duration of each year is less than the apparent duration of the year before it. In objective terms, each year is as long as each other - like the inches on a rular - in subjective terms (how it feels) the years' lengths seem to decline like the intervals on a slide rule.

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