ELIF: how is time relative?
In: Physics
Easiest method, listen to a few heavy metal songs (or other high tempo music) until you can comfortably keep the tune in your head and follow along, almost natural and not fast at all you would think.
now, listen to classical music or other low tempo music, it will seem dramatically slow. keep listening until it feels regular speed and comfortable to follow.
Now, listen to the exact same heavy metal/high tempo music, it will be retardedly fast.
Time hasn’t changed, your perception of it has. Time is relative to your perception of it, your brain can speed up that perception if there are too many things coming at you (high tempo) and you only need to take in the important parts (melody of a song) making time appear fast. Likewise, it slows if there are very little things coming at you (low tempo) and your brain has enough time to analyze every detail of seemingly detail-less things. Making time appear slow.
This can also be viewed as how older generations feel like their time is fleeting and just whizzing by. They arent open to learning new things, experiencing the finer details of life because they’ve seen and done a lot of it already, so time appears to move by them at a fast pace.
When you are younger, everything is new, your brain is constantly learning even if you don’t know it is, new school? new people, new smells, new lighting, new everything. Yout brain is on overtime trying to analyze it all, which makes time appear dreadfully slow. Ever wonder why summer vacation as a kid felt like a small eternity but as an adult it just passed by like a missed opportunity?
This is why.
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