ELIF: how is time relative?
In: Physics
An interesting thought I came up with (not saying I’m the only one who thought this but I have never heard anyone else say it) like 20yrs ago…
Why does time seem to go by faster as I get older?
When you are young, let’s say 5yo, a year of your life is 1/5th of your entire life. Seems like a long time, a fifth of your life right? I’m 40ish now so 1/5th of my life would be 8yrs!
Now go back to that 1yr timeframe and apply it to my current age. 1yr is 1/40th of my life. It seems like nothing! If you apply my current aspect of a year back to that 5yo, that is roughly 1.5 months of his or hers life.
1.5mo!
Not the Einsteinian theory of relativity, OP was looking for, but a neat thought experiment on “Why time flys.”
Time is relative to the observer.
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