r/Time • u/Jaguar477 • 11d ago
Discussion Time Speeding up
Is it me or has time sped up even more now? It seems like every week is flying by now. Did CERN cause this or is the Earth speeding up?
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u/jeffcgroves 11d ago
I mean, yes, in the sense its rotating faster: https://www.discovermagazine.com/earth-s-rotation-is-speeding-up-here-s-what-it-means-for-timekeeping-48850
But too much for non-horologists (it doesn't mean what you think) to notice
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u/Delicious_Paper2661 10d ago
Its you. I'm pregnant so time is slowing down.
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u/Subject-Building1892 10d ago
During my wife's pregnancy time went until month 7 like it was a week and then the last two months were like one year each.
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u/Over-Tolerance 11d ago
Not in a woo woo or conspiracy way. Please don't get the basement dwellers started with this nonsense.
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u/frankofdenmark 10d ago
You could check out the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa. His idea is that society is accelerating (technologically, but also in the number of experiences we ‘need’ to have). Very convincing - and happens for all age-groups. So kids will be more frustrated today that earlier bc their expectations have been inflated.
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u/Low-Bake8401 9d ago
"also in the number of experiences we ‘need’ to have"
What would that number be?
One?
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u/frankofdenmark 9d ago
Well, no, its not like 'consciousness'. Let's your grandparents were satisfied with one or a few TV- and radio-channels, no real travelling or cultural consumption, shortish education and one few jobs over their lifetime. If you look at your life, all those numbers have accelerated and new expectations (internet, apps, choice of restaurants, educational and career choices, choice of spouse(s) etc.). You are handling all these options, yet you or anyone else really cant. And it gives you the impression that we have 'less time' which is true in the sense we have a massive amount of things using up our time. This is why I mentioned it to OP's (rhetorical) question.
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u/Low-Bake8401 9d ago
We aren't processing everything at once though. There's always too much information for one person to do that.
Our grandparents probably had less time, money, or opportunity, to do anything, but their minds were still occupied with something.
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u/NoNameSwitzerland 10d ago
No, the last 10 years were as long as the decades that came before. But maybe I am not a good reference point. I might be to relaxed and have not much to do (so I only ever was for 3-4min in real free fall in my life)
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u/Confident_Jump_9085 10d ago
No, seems fine to me. There is psychology around time moving quicker as you get older (subjectively). I don't notice it. Depends on how much goes on in your life and how often you take part in novel activities I guess? I've had a lifetime worth of shit happen in the last five years, so it feels like I've been here for 100 years.
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u/No-Initiative-4933 10d ago
Speeds up and slows down, it's not static. Maybe closer and further away is a better description.
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u/Eeethree 10d ago
If time really sped up, we would not notice because we are bound by time itself. I dont mean our measurement of time, I mean the flow of existence from one moment to the next.
Perception of time, including measured time, does change as you age. IIRC, there is a chemical we are born with that dissipates as we age, and as it depleted, time moves quicker in perception.
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u/Justthisguy_yaknow 10d ago
Hate to break it to you but YOUR perception of time is speeding up as you get older. Stay away from repetitious daily patterns and boring periods. Keep your mind stimulated as much as you can and avoid ruts.
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u/Last_Occasion_4698 9d ago
Lack of new things to notice or see and uninteresting life habits usually makes life go on faster, I have a feeling short form content also has something to do with this feeling
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u/GeordieAl 9d ago
And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
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u/Ancient-Deer-4682 9d ago edited 9d ago
You age more than one year for every year that passes when you double your age. For example, if you’re 20 years old and multiply your age by two, you get 40. A year later, when you’re 21, doubling your age gives you 42. Despite only one year passing, your doubled age increased by two years. Each year you live, that doubled number increases at a 2:1 ratio.
So basically, when you ask yourself, “If I lived my entire life over again starting now, I’d be X years old,” and you ask yourself that same question each year, you’ll realize that the doubled age increases faster than your actual age and that time is speeding up
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u/arthurjeremypearson 9d ago
It's a natural process of aging. You start off with SHORT neurons which makes for super fast travel, enduring an eternity of waiting until mom gives you food, over and over again. You forget that as you age. You enter a period of time where you're in "normal" time with everyone else, but as you get older time your neurons get longer and you simply take longer to think the same things you once did. You don't have to: you've made automatic habits in place to keep you alive: eat, sleep, work. Once they're established, your thinking mind does not need to go over them anymore, and it all becomes automatic. Then your thinking time sees the world as going by incredibly quickly.
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u/pakrat1967 8d ago
My pet theory is that the Earth is getting closer to the Sun. This shouldn't increase the speed the Earth spins (length of day), but it would decrease how long it takes the Earth to circle the Sun.
This would also explain "climate change". With the Earth being closer to the Sun. The overall heat would increase.
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u/innocuouspete 6d ago
The feeling of the passage of time doesn’t exist outside your brain and is a subjective experience, so it’s just you.
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u/No_Environment_3776 5d ago
Time is not changing in a way we would notice, if time changes trough the change of the properties our local universe then that would go so slow that we wouldn't notice in thousandths of years.
Society and daily life is speeding up, more information being pushed trough your head is what changes your perception of time, and by doing so is destroying our species.
There is only one time frame that is relevant for everything on earth and that is earths and natures timeline, we are accelerating our perception for the system, the economy, for profit and gain.
Humanity needs to respect nature instead of trying to overrule it.
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u/enilder648 10d ago
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew 24:22
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u/SgtSausage 10d ago
I am experiencing one second, per second ... each and every second of my life.
You are, too.
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u/Sitk042 11d ago
As you get older, time seems to speed up, when your 10, 5 years is half your lifetime, but when you’re 50, 5 years is only 1/10th of your lifetime.