what you do affects time

tell me if you agree or dont and why here.
ive noticed in the past if one keeps busy time seems to go fast, and if one does nothing like sit on a couch time goes really slow.

what effect is this called? is there a scientific explenation for this??

Interesting one.....

The brain always seems to be pre-occupied when you are doing something creative and time appears to "speed up", which is of course an illusion, whilst if you are doing nothing the brain becomes "stagnant" which is why retired people who do not keep active, tend to deteriorate quicker. This makes time seem to drag.

Ross

i see what you mean. but i remeber watching something about this on discovery channel where they conducted "time tests"

they had teams on planes travelling to the same location from the same start point from the same time.

one of the teams tried to keep busy on the plane to make time go fast while the other team just sat around and looked out the window

and in the end the team that kept busy actually arrived like one minute faster then the lazy team how do you explain that?



[edit on 10-12-2006 by conspiracymaster]

Yes, what you descrbe is simply a mental illusion -- time flies when you're having fun, a watched pot never boils, etc.

The only way to truly affect the measured passage of time is to travel at relativistic speeds compared to an outside observer.

[edit on 12/10/2006 by djohnsto77]

i personally think the human being has an effect on time weather its direct or indirect.

Although I didn't see this show, I would imagine it just means that one plane traveled a tiny bit faster than the other. I'm sure a plane's instruments are pretty accurate, but not exact. The tiny difference in speed would make the time gap larger and larger the longer they flew. Do you remember how long the flight was?

I do notice that when i'm counting the minutes until I get off of work, time does seem to go extremely slow.

While i'm here on ATS though time seems to just fly right by me.

I wouldn't neccesarily say that what I do effects time though. I also notice that sometimes even while I am pre-occupied with things of interest I sometimes look at the clock and cannot believe how slow time has gone by.

I think it all depends on how people percieve time.

Hmmm..

A brain teaser.

Actually time, as I have come to know it, is basically non-variable. (in this dimension, anyway) It is a constant.

It takes exactly the same amount of time for me to do nothing for an hour, if I were to stay busy for that hour.

The same amount of time has passed. The passing of time requires no human energy, for it to transpire.

It is only your perception of time, that is altered.

[edit on 12/11/2006 by Mechanic 32]

i cant remember how long it was but everything was started the same time and place

and the calibrated the auto pilots so both planes travelled at the same speed and hight etc. you get the picture.

I think there is a perception of time of being fast or slow. If you're not busy time seems to pass by slowly. If you're busy, time seems to fly by. I don't know if you've noticed how long a red light seems to stay red when you're just sitting at it doing nothing versus when you try to do something else keeping busy while it is red.

On some other threads I've read how some think of our universe as being holographic and how we seem to be able to affect the time flow or speed at which we sometimes move through it. The thought was that if we are in a hurry that sometimes we may move through our holographic universe at a faster rate. Thus arriving at our destination a bit earlier than if we were not in a hurry. I believe proving any of this would be extremely difficult especially since busy people do tend to hurry along a little bit faster than normal.

Time is the measurement of motion in the Universe, how fast the galaxy rotates within the universe, how fast the solar system rotates within the galaxy, how fast the earth rotates around the Sun, and finally how fast the Earth simply rotates on its axis.

Nothing people do can affect these rates, although Nature itself can affect rotation. Time "slows" relative to an object not travelling at the same rate as the object in motion.

The other theory is that when people become so focused on a particular task, that time "for that subject" will suspend itself or slow down for a particular length of time, while for everyone else time seems to continue.