Is TIME BECOMING COMPRESSED....???

Question

Days, weeks and years seem shorter.

and it's not that i'm very busy...

Answer 1

This probably doesn't answer your question but right now (this part of the year) days are getting longer. More daylight hours until the fall when days get shorter again.

Answer 2

I have heard and I have noticed that time speeds up as you age.

Answer 3

There have been a couple of "jumps" in time fairly recently. They only noticed because the atomic clocks (that use radioactive decay) - lost a few seconds. The graphs showed a couple of clear breaks. - Worth looking into.

Answer 4

I have often thought of this myself' and i think its because when we are young,we take time for granted, and it feels like growing older is so far away.Then as we get older and because of the thought of our own mortality becomes more real to us, time appears to be slipping away from us faster.I also think that life's fast pace today makes time appear to pass faster' than say a couple of hundred years ago, when life was at a much slower pace than it is today. We don't have to be busy ourselves to be affected by the fast pace of life' everything and everybody is connected in one way or another.

I think most of us are suffering from this phenomenon.

Hope this was some help to you.

Answer 5

As you get older time seems to go much faster. In my opinion this has much to do on how we learn to deal with time. Did you ever notice that an unknown route seems to take longer when you don't know where you are going, as opposed to on the way home after you have familiarized your way a bit? I think that we learn to deal with time when we do the same things over and over again. We also seem to know more about what is to come next and what to expect when we grow up more than the magical thinking of a child.

Answer 6

I have noticed that too. I can hardly believe that the holidays have passed and it's already march! I have taken note of this for a while now and it's starting to get me!

Answer 7

ya even ihave experienced my holidays going shorter.

Answer 8

You are aware are you not that time is not actually real.

Spirit be timeless.

Answer 9

Well, at least we had Leap Day to make up for some of it. I know what you mean...but I don't know the answer. Maybe a little part of it is that they extend the holiday seasons...start them earlier. And then you say..."Oh..is Christmas already here??!!"..when actually, we haven't even had Halloween or Thanksgiving yet!!

Edit..And Easter comes earlier this year March 23 than it has since 1913. I just got a forward about that happening. That has to do with the sun or moon or equinox or something.You should google that!

http://christianity.about.com/od/easter/...

Answer 10

Time seems to pass more quickly as you get older, but that is just your perception and it is still plodding along at the same steady pace.

Answer 11

Time is real ... at least from the perspective of the space-time dimension we all inhabit. Those who disagree are welcome to send their arguments via e-mail from 2009 or in a telegram from 1909 as they choose.

Others have noted that we experience certain periods of time differently as we age because they're perceived relative to the amount of time we remember in our lifetimes. To a 5-year-old, 6 months seems like a long time, because it represents one-tenth his or her whole life. To a 40-year-old, it's only one-eightieth.

But, from a cosmological point of view, if time were to become compressed or distended, or even reversed, then so would our perception of it, and we wouldn't notice. In fact, this may be exactly what's happening.

For those old enough to remember vinyl records, the format known as "LP" was recorded at a speed of 33 1/3 rpm (revolutions per minute). This means that the whole disc rotated 100 times every 3 minutes. The playback stylus would ride in a spiral groove in the vinyl which extended from the edge of the disc to a point about 3/4ths of the way to the disc's center.

So, even though the record rotated at constant speed, the needle was traveling in smaller and smaller concentric circles. This means it actually had to cover more distance every minute at the beginning of the record (all the way around a big circle) than at the end (around a small circle). So, if you stretched the groove out into a straight line, the needle would start out traveling at, say, 3 mph at the beginning and gradually slow to 1/3 mph at the end.

But the listener didn't experience the sensation of "faster playback" at the beginning or "slower playback" at the end, because that was the nature of the medium, and it was recorded in the same way it was played back.

In the same way, the nature of the medium that we live in may be such that time is slowing down--our "recording needles" are travelling more slowly--but we don't detect any difference because our brains--our "playback needles"--are traveling at the same speed.  

And, since we're unable to make observations from a frame of reference outside space-time, we can only theorize.