Who Kicked Time Into Overdrive?

reply to post by SednaSon


Thank you for the link, this is very interesting and I can not wait to read on it further!!

Originally posted by ldyserenity
If time is speeding up and passing through an hourglass like one Poster said, then will we be seeing a reversal of time? Living our lives backward? That would be crazy, now wouldn't it?

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When you live upside down Down Under every day , living life backwards doesn't seem crazy in the slightest.

On a philosophical note; who's to say we don't cycle thru retrograde on a smaller personal physical level?
I mean , if you think about it, we go from dependency to independence to dependency as we age and mature; from nappies to nappies to put it more plainly

I hear what you are saying!

When I was younger (an apprentice) the guy that was training me(he was 60), used to say that life is a little like a roller-coaster, the first 30 years you spend slowly winching yourself up that rise..........and when you reach the top....you pause for a split second...........and then it's all down hill at a hell of a rate!!!

Whats funny about all of this is that I'm a musician, I've been playing various instruments since I was 5, and I've noticed recently (as in the past 18 months or so) that when counting things or trying to gauge a tempo, I'm off. Usually, most musicians speed things up a bit without a metronome, I've noticed I've slipped from my usual 180bpm to around 165-150bpm. Before you go and say "WOW! that must mean you think things are slowing down" think again. I can only fit 165 beats of what I normally play into a minute, I'm used to playing 180. I do believe time is speeding up.

Logically I suppose you could argue I've just gotten used to playing slower, i.e. I haven't been playing as much or I've adjusted my style for something a little slower. This isn't the case. Every musician can write and play pieces in a variety of signatures and tempos, I'm not an exception to this rule, but the style of play/writing I've become accustom to sits around 180-200bpm not 165-150bpm. Its seriously been bothering me. At first I shrugged it off, but when it slowly transitioned from being every few days to being a constant...

Of course I could just be imagining all of this. It could just be me, but I'm glad not the only one whose been feeling something strange.

There's actually a very logical reason why time seems to move more quickly as we get older. When you are young -- say 10 years old -- one year is a very long time; in fact one year is 10% (or one-tenth) of your life to that point. That's a very big potion of your life.

As we get older and we live more years, one year is a shorter portion of your life. To someone who is 50 years old, one year is only 2% (or one-fiftieth) of your life.

One year is a very short part of a 50-year-old's life, but that exact same year is a very large part of a 10-year-old's life.