Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252
Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.
Precise Calculations (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ugh... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not falling for that one again.
Re:Or its all in our head (Score:5, Funny)
nine minute audio?! (Score:3, Funny)
shit, that's a boredom-laced eternity.
No, you need an upgrade... (Score:3, Funny)
Hellooo...have you seen the type of brains available now? Six, going on seven layers...adaptive reasoning, darwin-series inhibitors, enlarged stem, v2 fight-or-flight firmware. Things have changed since some people started wearing pants you know.
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:1, Funny)
Trial 1: 67 seconds
Trial 2: 64 seconds
Trial 3: 59 seconds
Age: 23... frak..
Re:Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ugh... (Score:3, Funny)
Sure, but can you drive a 1959 "Uncle Buck" model without endagering small children?
My Grandfather always said, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No, you need an upgrade... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I see you're one of those models. You feel totally superior to the previous generation, but have not quite realized that your feature set will be superseded with a bigger and better one Very Soon(tm).
Good luck with all your new features, and pants, you'll be needing it.
Re:Phsycological (Score:1, Funny)
If it is phycological that means I just need to change my way of thinking right? Right? Right? Come on... why isn't anyone answering me?
Because you failed phycology
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:5, Funny)
It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.
Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.
I knew it (Score:3, Funny)
I figured that out all on my own in my mid twenties. Seems like it was just yesterday.
Re:defrag me (Score:1, Funny)
I've always put it down as either our heads getting bigger, or brain matter getting either denser or more complexly connected. I'd like a defrag please.
My problem is that when I try to learn something new now, I keep getting a "disk full" error.
Re:Ugh... (Score:1, Funny)
Hell No!
That last one was ape-shit crazy - and all THIS one does is surf porn and read /.
'nuff said.
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:5, Funny)
I just tried it and fell asleep. Is that a sign I'm getting old?
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:5, Funny)
Trial 1: 3.5 seconds
Trial 2: 2.7 seconds
Trial 3: 1.8 seconds
Frak, I need to switch to decaf!
Re:1 Day Expressed as a Percentage of Your Life (Score:3, Funny)
What if you could ride a train that goes at the speed of light, away from that boring movie. Would said movie become even more boring?
Re:Ugh... (Score:5, Funny)
For what it's worth, I still disagree with the guy but there's got to be some advantage to your youth, if nothing else, think of all the abysmal 1980s technology you skipped right over!
Bugger that! Think of all the abysmal 1980s music you skipped over. A Flock of seagulls, Wham, Adam and The Ants, Human League, Culture Club etc. I don't know how we did it, but we finally realized that just because a synthesizer could make nearly every possible sound, they didn't all have to be in the same song! And the fashion! Dear God, what horrors! - shoulder pads, big hair, jackets with sleeves rolled up, zip-up shoes (remember Ciaks?), scraps of brightly fabric tied everywhere, puffy shirts, skinny leather neckties, faux military uniforms, solitary white gloves. Oh, the humanity!
Re:Ugh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Or its all in our head (Score:3, Funny)
Am I a bad man because this thread made me laugh? Go ahead, mod me troll or what have you, I deserve it.
Re:Ugh... (Score:2, Funny)
9 minutes? (Score:1, Funny)
Are you sure that was a 9 minute audio file? I could have sworn it felt like it was less than 5.
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah but not all 41 trillion operations were devoted entirely to logics in that 0.68 seconds. The Borg queen practically felt him up and kept licking on the that piece of skin on his face. That stimuli is a lot of operations for an android you insensitive clod.
Mmmmyep (Score:3, Funny)
Now I just feel old and depressed. Yay! Thanks, Slashdot!
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:5, Funny)
Ha! It's a trick question! Only old people have Werther's Originals!
Re:Michio Kaku (Score:2, Funny)
I've thought for close to a decade now that our perception of time slows down as we age. It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
The first million years would be the worst. Then the second. They'd be the worst too. After that you'll go into a bit of a decline...