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I disagree with YOUR theory, mundane and mediocrity is usually associated with clock watching and dragging time, therefore I deem my "Percentage of lifetime" theory far superior! Nyah!

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Been there. Done that. Bought, used up, bought, used up and bought the T-shirt.

musk rat - I find your over-simplistic and binary theory unconvincing and unsatisfactory. however I will accept that it may have a bearing, although not to the extent that you suggest.

Insurance Vampire - that sociological analysis makes a lot more sense than Muskie's homespun codswallop. however, i can't help but feel that metabolic relativism plays a part too. For example, do animals that have metabolic rates and lifespans widely at variance with those of humans percieve time in the same way or at the same rate? doe an insect that lives out it's entire lifespan in a few days or weeks percieve time at the same rate as, say, and effalump or a whale, that may live as long or longer than humans, or a Galapgos tortoise that may live for centuries? Of course, we'd never know, as they can't tell us. But I suspect that based on our own existences and the rate of change in time perception from our childhood, when we're rushing around burning up energy and absorbing lots of different input, to older ages when we ain't, plays a significant part. But I accept your argument as a working explanation.

I've noticed that when we're really bored, time drags and one can really feel it dragging, such as when the child drags me to see his latest boring cartoon feature (I actually fall asleep most of the time so at least i escape the boredom!) however on the rare occasions that I actually get to see something that i find interesting and entertaining, a rarity indeed these days, time simply flies, and it's over all to quickly, whereupon i'm rudely ejected back into the real and terribly mundane world.

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Insurance Vampire - that sociological analysis makes a lot more sense than Muskie's homespun codswallop. however, i can't help but feel that metabolic relativism plays a part too. .... But I accept your argument as a working explanation.

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Metabolism. I wasn't able to resolve whether a slowing in metabolism is supposed to correspond with a relative sense of time speeding up or slowing down or perhaps both, depending upon the external stimulus.

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I've noticed that when we're really bored, time drags and one can really feel it dragging, such as when the child drags me to see his latest boring cartoon feature (I actually fall asleep most of the time so at least i escape the boredom!) however on the rare occasions that I actually get to see something that i find interesting and entertaining, a rarity indeed these days, time simply flies, and it's over all to quickly, whereupon i'm rudely ejected back into the real and terribly mundane world

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Time slowing when one is bored is rather universal isn't it? Excruciatingly slow for bored children, and only finger nail on the chalkboard slow for adults ... etc.

I was trying to distinguish routine from paralytic boredom .... routine that we all must do day to day that is not boring, per se, but not new or freshly challenging. More or less, chores that must be done and that we have disciplined ourselves to do ... that type of daily routine. Days like those tend to blend together only to be punctuated by the weekend and the semi-surprise of it, for example.

Procrastinators, would feel this kind of "time flies" phenomenon most acutely.

How did Einstein put it (Not an exact quote)
When putting your hand on a hot stove plate, a minute feels like an hour, but when talking to a pretty girl, an hour feels like a minute

He was actually talking about relativity I think, but yea

Time does fly..I can't believe I'm almost done with uni, it feels like I started yesterday

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talking to a pretty girl, an hour feels like a minute

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does it? I wouldn't know, pretty girls don't talk to me anymore, and I don't talk to them! (but only for fear of being accused of being a old lech, which of course I'm not - i leave that sort of thing to the Insurance Fella!)

Taw, make sure the Mrs. doesn't see this.

Edited by - Finalday on 1/20/2007 12:30:34 PM

Taw - I know what you mean, seems like just the other day I graduated from high school. now I'm two years into college and got piles of things to do and not enough time, yet the days drag on and on and months seem like weeks. Also I don't mean to change the subject but that Microraptor thing you posted about, I was told that was a scam by the digger when it first appeared in 2003 just to get publicity. Oh well, I still think its a real dino.

Edited by - warrior17 on 1/24/2007 4:27:35 PM

Mustang- If you do that you'll live to 80 but die at 33. that would s***

SO SAYS TEH HAPZORZ!!!

Edited by - lancerlover on 1/24/2007 5:01:21 PM

Edited by - lancerlover on 1/24/2007 5:02:27 PM

How exactly do you figure that?

Don't think we have try to slow the time. We have to increase lifetime.

As it is not that easy - to increase lifetime - maybe try to increase existance time of human?
What is your body, your brain? Just things that store your mind, your psych.
Like some hard disk.
And body has one bad thing - it's.... deathable, yeah, it can die.
Just transfer your mind to some other, more durable, artificial maybe storage, and
exist as long as you want.
But how to do it ??? Yes, that's the question.
That's where CNS neurology, psychophisiology, psychology, psi and IT, computering, AI developing meet together and become one.
Hope in next 50-150 years we gonna have this.(Some more hope: hope I'll do some job for it).

And now we can only stop smoking, get our ass to jim to make some exercises, eat nictin and resveratrol, drink enough water, eat less and wait...


Edited by - Vital on 3/25/2007 2:55:13 PM