It’s because people are filling up their day with noise to distract them from time. If you sit by yourself for a weekend with nothing to do, no distractions, whatever the age time will “slow” down....

This exactly. A great example is jail, time slows to a crawl

Did a weekend back in the day, longest 72 hours of my fucking life

Jail is like a really a small set of questions: how much can a human sleep, how many laps can I walk around the table here, and why is that guy scratching his nuts with the TV remote?

The only answer

God I get so mad at my girlfriend for always having to have stuff to do all planned out.

Schumann Resonance might be the reason.

Looking this up

Suspected to be the “base speed” of stuff here on earth, like the CPU speed of your computer..

And right now its twice the frequency it used to be.

and it's related to the global temperature non-linearly, so the warmer earth gets, the faster it goes.

Global warming is speeding up time.

It is actually very interesting to read about this! Let us know what you think.

It could be as simple as our galaxy near a black hole

Our galaxy is full of black holes, they're extremely small for the most part. There aren't galaxy sized black holes floating around.

There aren't galaxy sized black holes floating around.

Where does he say galaxy sized black holes? That's you.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/04/the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-has-siblings

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599437677/new-study-shows-the-center-of-the-milky-way-has-thousands-of-black-holes

"our galaxy near a black hole" is what he said. The galaxy iss full of black holes.

There are NOT galaxy sized blackholes, you link is talking about a SMBH, which are at the center of lots of galaxies. it's trillions of times smaller than the galaxy itself.

There are NOT galaxy sized blackholes

https://www.space.com/18668-biggest-black-hole-discovery.html

It makes up about 59 percent of its host galaxy's central mass

"It's almost all black hole. This could be the first object in a new class of galaxy-black hole systems."

the supermassive black hole at its heart weighs in at roughly 17 billion solar masses and is more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the Sun.

The giant black hole is about 11 times as wide as the orbit of Neptune around our sun, researchers said.

Try reading your own article. :D

It could be as simple as our galaxy near a black hole, the ever so slight gravitational pull messing with our perception.

It doesn't work like that. Your own perception of time doesn't change.

See, they say that, but humans have two very potent magnets, their brains and their hearts. If there is a magnetic force powerful enough to affect a planet, surely it's going to affect what's on the surface as well.

This makes zero sense.

Everything... Everything in this sentence is wrong.

I edited my statement.

Your own perception of time could change as you get older. Is it possible that when you're 5 years old, 1 year is a 5th of the time you've been alive so it seems longer than when you're 60 and it's only 1/60th of you life?

What's this have to do with gravitational time dilation?

I didn't mention gravitational time dilation at all. You said that your perception of time doesn't change. I disagree. That is all.

I'm talking about gravitational time dilation. Stick to the topic.

Well then maybe next time be specific and say 'gravitational time dilation doesn't cause your own perception of tone to change' and you won't have people disagreeing with you.

Maybe pay attention to what part of the OP I'm responding to... It literally specifies gravity...

Yes, but it doesn't literally say 'gravitational time dilation' does it?

Doesn't need to. The adults here would know what it refers to.

What a cunty response.

You don’t understand the question or the response. Just move along.

The topic was about gravity.

Did you respond to the wrong tread?

I believe it’s due to the prevalance of near light speed communication.

If you consider Einstein’s special relativity and the fact that there are inertial reference frames being blasted all around us, it makes sense that time dilation would be occurring.

When I ask people I think would know the answer, I’m told that light doesn’t follow the same rules.

I’m only a mech engineer, not a theoretical physicist but I am convinced this is what’s happening.

As you get older time does seem to go by faster.

As a kid summers seemed to last forever.

When you are 60+ summers go by quickly.

I have noticed this and I think I know why.

When you are six years old, a summer is .04 % of your life.

When you are sixty years old, summers are .004 % of your life.

That's a difference in magnitude of 10.

So relative to ones experience, days, weeks, months, years all seem shorter as you get older because a unit of time is considerably smaller in relation to your age.

I just responded to a comment with almost the same answer, just poorly worded compared to yours.

Totally agree with you but I'm a math nerd, so:

If you're 6 years old, you're 72 months old. A summer is ... 3 months?

3 / 72 = 0.04 = 4%

lol, dang decimal places. You are completely correct.

The Eagleman Stag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5K2HUg11sQ

Just watched it.

Very cool.

Thanks for the heads up.

The second half of the toilet paper roll always seems to run quicker.

Diameter is smaller, so less paper can be held on it.

This made me laugh! smart man!

The bottom half of a tank of gas empties quicker.

I think the psychological explanation you gave is true and I don't know how children could tell now, that children few years ago percieved time as moving less fast. They couldn't know, so it's basically only that what people always experienced while growing older. (time passes faster the older you get) Old hat! What the kids today say doesnt't count since they can't compare. :)

If you don't like that I have a philosophical approach at hand as well.

In physics it is known, that matter/ gravity slows down/ stretches time. If you fly away from earth in a spaceship, time will pass faster for you than for people on earth (when you come back, people on Earth aged more than you did) Children are more connected to the world. Adults lose the connection to the world. One could say, children are closer to the world, thus they percieve time as moving slow. They experience life while we are only alive. In a spiritual way, we move away from this world, ever more the older we get and maybe this has for some reason the same effect as physically moving away from the planet, we percieve time as runing faster.

If you fly away from earth in a spaceship, time will pass faster for you than for people on earth

Other way around, time passes slower the farther from the core you get. Think of time like a waveform; the stronger the gravity is, the more compressed the waveform becomes. Living on earth, you actally age slightly slower living at altitude because the gravity is slightly weaker than sea level.

That leads to an interesting theory: there's been an increase in gravitational forces either from the earth itself or an approaching astronomical body.

There is this growing Earth theory, so that would make sense.

It says something like the sun is sending a constant stream of tachyons to Earth and those tachyons, when reaching earths core will create new mass. Tachyons are hypothetical massless particles. The theory states that it might be possible, that the magnetic core of earth might be able to catch them and some physicall process could turn them into matter, which would cause the Earth to grow from the inside.

There is even some pretty neat evidence, that Earth is indeed growing, ever since.

I wish i knew more what others feel. With no significant hobbies or occupations time could be slow for me, but not and i agree - "time" is worth our reevaluation

humans create an equivalent amount of data to that held in the u.s. library of congress daily. the collected wisdom and records of hundreds of years can be stacked up to the same b.s. we pump out hour on hour, by volume.

bees use the perceived speed differences between objects to understand their distance from those objects. like bees, perspective allows us to judge our temporal distance from other moments in our lives. well the tach just hit warp drive and our hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-old brains just can't process it in any other way than to tell us time is moving faster.

I think you are legitimately on to something here. My job is very people-oriented and almost everyone I speak to has the notion that time is going faster. Young, old, unemployed, 9-5ers. Everyone. I don't think the dismissive skeptic crowd are right when they say 'oh it's just due to getting older'. It's young people just as much as old people.

It gets really interesting although, because I read in a book a few months back that the Mayans claimed that as the 5th sun came to an end everyone's perception of time would speed up. Apparently it is due to the magnetic influence of the sun, symptoms of an upcoming solar change.

So currently, we have rumours from ancient civilisations (Mayan, Hindu) that the current age is about to change, we have astrology saying the age is changing (Pisces to Aquarius), we have consistent signs of impending solar activity. And then on top of all of this we have an ancient civilisation (that had a memory of 4 of these events) telling us that everyone's perception of time will speed up the closer it gets to the event. Connect the dots guys.

..and remain as centered as possible with the patience of the saints.

Count me in as someone who thinks that time feels faster, but how do you explain something like me cooking an old recipe I have (~40-odd years old) and it still turning out perfectly?

Cooking is one of those things where you don't get the same results jacking up the temperature and decreasing the duration of exposure. A frozen pizza that needs 20 minutes at 400F won't cook right at 500F for 15 minutes.

If its relativistic time increase, how would we notice time was faster?

I would guess that you're thinking about time too literally when it comes to pizza in an oven. What's really "speeding up" is everyone perception of time.

I guess that makes sense, although it's kind of creepy to think that we'd be able to perceive an actual increase of time -- wouldn't our organic brain processes be as speeded up as everything else?

Well if you want to start going there.. what exactly is time? Is it an actual thing or is just the way our brain organizes our experiences in the universe? Is time nothing but a perception within each of our minds, I always wonder, does an hour for me feel the same as an hour to you?

I think you have to start getting into some metaphysics.

Time, at least right now, is mostly measured as "the number of cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium-133 atom." So it actually corresponds to an actual physical phenomenon.

For us to experience this phenomenon as faster or slower without a change in the measure of the physical phenomenon (ie, something other than 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation in a cesium atom) and for this experience to be something other than a specific psychological experience unique to an individual would mean that the part of us that experiences time would somehow be outside the physical phenomenon of time, since our brains are subject to the same rules of atomic physics as an atomic clock.

Which would imply that our consciousness that experiences time is not part of our brain...

Think about it like this. When you're 5 years old the summer (2-3 months) feels longer because its a higher percentage of your total life - around 6% of your entire life.

Fast forward to 50 years old and summer is only 0.5% of your life now

Revelation 8:10-11 when the 4th Trumpet sounds, the Bible says the sun would not shine for one-third part of the day, the moon would not shine for one-third part of the night. Which seems to teach that the shortening of the days will occur by shortening the time the sun shines and shortening the times the moon shines, which would mean that the length of each day will be shortened.

Some speculate that we are actually on the rim of a black hole. Not sure where I've heard this theory, maybe holofractal or something like that. This might be relevant to your search.

If you're talking about feeling like days or years are going by faster, that's just old age. But i remember very clearly that a second was a longer interval.

I remember learning at what pace to count "mississippi's" to count seconds (this was important for touch football). I have vivid memories of watching the schoolroom clock tick down those last few minutes till 3:00, because I did this every day (and so did everyone else).

I don't know what is causing this, or why, or if it is somehow natural or a manufactured phenomenon... but I know it's not old age, or misremembering.

Routine will make time fly. you must change it up if you want it to slow down.

Also take into consideration, when you are a child life is full of firsts.... time goes slow because it is new up to a certain age. Then the switch flips and time seems to speed by. As an adult your "firsts" are a lot more few and far between.

I think time is moving faster because we live in a digitised society that values increasing productivity and decreasing time allotted to thinking, relaxation and unplugging. Even if you personally don't spent that much time online or with the distractions, the culture is so imbibed with it that time still feels faster. Commutes take longer because you have more people and more traffic, and there you go, an hour or more gone, boom. Billboards everywhere with information to subconsciously take in, more money problems for everyone to worry about, even with kids from babyhood they're taught to multitask and switch between activities more quickly (at least the ones I interact with).

My summer job involves going on a lot of hikes in the middle of nowhere with no people and no phone connection. Time definitely feels slower when you pull out of society like that.

I'd love to hear your job because I need one like that

I am just a research student working with my professor right now, but we monitor ozone in conjunction with the USFS.

Days can feel like weeks to me. I can’t really relate to this.

Yo OP you might like this

https://www.drjoedispenza.com/blog/consciousness/what-does-the-spike-in-the-schumann-resonance-mean/

Let me spit in low IQ what this basically says. Earth has a frequency it gives off, we can read this and scale it. Apparently its increased in the last 20 years , it does fluctuate but its at a high right now. Some say we humans pick up on this frequency. Some also say we humans are tapped into this frequency and as a whole body somewhat direct its level. The more minds connected the more power we have over it. The internet came out big time about 30 years ago, and 9/11 about 20 years ago put all our minds together sub consciously as we worry for the future as a animal together. The higher that number the faster time seems to go apparently.

We are literally moving faster through space, precession is actually speeding up. There's evidence that our solar system is in a binary orbit, with something, and that we are currently heading towards perihelion. My theory is that it's a solar mass black hole.

its a metabolisim thing as people age.

a persons internal clock slows down so time seems faster.

second perception is a major clue, when you are young its one thousand two thousand counting seconds off, years down the road its one two three four.

When your bored, and working, time goes slow. When your constantly stimulated, time goes fast. That’s all it is.

When you have to wait an hour with nothing to do it’s not pleasent.

When you have four 15min intervals to watch or do shit online, it goes by like nothing.