Why does time seem to slow down momentarily at times. on specific days?

Question

I am just being curious, because I know times a constant.

It never truly changes, a minute will be a minute, a second will be a second, a yea rwill be a year.

But how are we able to slow it down and speed it up at times?

Just a curious 15 year old.

Answer 1

What you are thinking of as time is really just one aspect of it called "psychological time", which is subjective. That has more to do with the rate at which your brain processes information. This rate has it's own internal "clock" which varies from moment to moment relative to a mechanical clock. The latter measures something called "thermodynamic time" which is more objective because of it's closer correlation to events like days, years, and other reproducible physical processes.