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Nature Of Time
Why does time seem to speed up as you get older?
Everyone I speak to says the same, as you age the years go quicker. Ive read some weird stuff (when I was much younger) about the nature of time but cant remember much, if any, of it now.
And what is that thing about, where the faster you travel the slower time passes? Could never wrap my head around that. We tend to see time as one moment simply following another but its obviously not.
Thanks in advance.
Everyone I speak to says the same, as you age the years go quicker. Ive read some weird stuff (when I was much younger) about the nature of time but cant remember much, if any, of it now.
And what is that thing about, where the faster you travel the slower time passes? Could never wrap my head around that. We tend to see time as one moment simply following another but its obviously not.
Thanks in advance.
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"Just glanced at OG's link and I think it's a pretty good explanation"
Curiously, though, it does not explain the paradox of the twins properly. As described there, it's a curiosity that one twin will have aged more than the other. But the paradox of course involves the notion that relative to each other each twin must be both older and younger than the other.
Curiously, though, it does not explain the paradox of the twins properly. As described there, it's a curiosity that one twin will have aged more than the other. But the paradox of course involves the notion that relative to each other each twin must be both older and younger than the other.
Sometimes these things have to make less sense before they make more sense :P
What I mean is that no explanation is ever quite the same as seeing this for yourself. It's rather like trying to appreciate the beauty of Mozart's music by someone reading the score to you -- or to try gazing at the marvels of a Turner masterpiece when someone only shows you the back of the frame.
This isn't easy. Just takes practice, is all (and a sheer bloody-minded determination to understand it!)
What I mean is that no explanation is ever quite the same as seeing this for yourself. It's rather like trying to appreciate the beauty of Mozart's music by someone reading the score to you -- or to try gazing at the marvels of a Turner masterpiece when someone only shows you the back of the frame.
This isn't easy. Just takes practice, is all (and a sheer bloody-minded determination to understand it!)
