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Sand in an hour glass...
Nise's Notes
by Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
July 20, 2005
Time, I've decided, is a relative thing. It is relative to what is going on around a person. This is a pet theory I play with out of humor.
The old adage that, "Time flies when you're having fun" is all-too-true. It seems as if in a blink of an eye, hours have passed and you're left wondering where all the time went. Similarly, though, when you're left with nothing to do, time seems to elongate. Minutes feel like hours. Hours feel like days.
It all has to do with the perception you have about what you are doing at any given moment.
I've decided that time balances out by giving us equal amounts of instances when "time flies" as to when time seems to slow to a crawl. It's balanced within our individual lives as well as within the everyday world. I'm having a long day at the same time someone else has a day that goes too quick. Therefore, time stays steady across the globe.
Do I have any scientific basis for this theory? No, I don't, and nor do I take it seriously myself.
However, I decided to take my curiosity to the internet and all the brilliant people that hang out on that world wide web. Surely someone else has had the same theory at some point.
As a child we all learn in school that a minute is comprised of 60 seconds. An hour is made of 60 minutes. A day, 24 hours. A week is seven days. Etc.
We consider time to be a constant. The ticking second hand on a wristwatch is steady and reliable. These facts were reiterated in most of the sites I visited, until, of course, I found myself emmersed in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
I found myself emerged in points and distances. How motion effects time.
I found posted on a message board the simpliest explination I could find:
"A person always measures time, for themselves, to pass at 1 second per second. How they measure time passing for another person, depends on the relative velocities between the two people, and any acceleration (or gravity) present. If they're moving, their time will move slower. Whoever is experiencing the acceleration will have time pass slower (they will always measure it as 1 second per second) which is the only way you'll measure someone's time to be passing faster than you're own (you are accelerating, they are not). "
This is why I became a writer and not a scientist. I only understood about half of it. The rest, I'm sure I learned in my physics class in high school. However that was too long ago to remember.
I scrolled down the page a little farther and found that someone actually had given a lot of thought to time passing quicker as you age. They actually explained it mathematically:
"When you are 4 years old, one year is 25% of your life - hence one year is more important and passes more slowly. When you are 50, one year is only 2% of your life."
I concluded upon all of my findings that my theory isn't really that far off. Time as a constant is true. Everyone spends the same number of days in a year, and we all experience 60 seconds in a minute. We all reach January 1st on the same day. However, due to our perceptions, of that time feels different or everyone.
I'm not a scientist, nor do I claim to be one. I still hold on to my little pet theory for humors sake, but I can now acually discuss it with some real knowledge.
And just think... this all spawned from time seeming to pass too slowly one day.
Nise's Notes
by Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
July 20, 2005
Time, I've decided, is a relative thing. It is relative to what is going on around a person. This is a pet theory I play with out of humor.
The old adage that, "Time flies when you're having fun" is all-too-true. It seems as if in a blink of an eye, hours have passed and you're left wondering where all the time went. Similarly, though, when you're left with nothing to do, time seems to elongate. Minutes feel like hours. Hours feel like days.
It all has to do with the perception you have about what you are doing at any given moment.
I've decided that time balances out by giving us equal amounts of instances when "time flies" as to when time seems to slow to a crawl. It's balanced within our individual lives as well as within the everyday world. I'm having a long day at the same time someone else has a day that goes too quick. Therefore, time stays steady across the globe.
Do I have any scientific basis for this theory? No, I don't, and nor do I take it seriously myself.
However, I decided to take my curiosity to the internet and all the brilliant people that hang out on that world wide web. Surely someone else has had the same theory at some point.
As a child we all learn in school that a minute is comprised of 60 seconds. An hour is made of 60 minutes. A day, 24 hours. A week is seven days. Etc.
We consider time to be a constant. The ticking second hand on a wristwatch is steady and reliable. These facts were reiterated in most of the sites I visited, until, of course, I found myself emmersed in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
I found myself emerged in points and distances. How motion effects time.
I found posted on a message board the simpliest explination I could find:
"A person always measures time, for themselves, to pass at 1 second per second. How they measure time passing for another person, depends on the relative velocities between the two people, and any acceleration (or gravity) present. If they're moving, their time will move slower. Whoever is experiencing the acceleration will have time pass slower (they will always measure it as 1 second per second) which is the only way you'll measure someone's time to be passing faster than you're own (you are accelerating, they are not). "
This is why I became a writer and not a scientist. I only understood about half of it. The rest, I'm sure I learned in my physics class in high school. However that was too long ago to remember.
I scrolled down the page a little farther and found that someone actually had given a lot of thought to time passing quicker as you age. They actually explained it mathematically:
"When you are 4 years old, one year is 25% of your life - hence one year is more important and passes more slowly. When you are 50, one year is only 2% of your life."
I concluded upon all of my findings that my theory isn't really that far off. Time as a constant is true. Everyone spends the same number of days in a year, and we all experience 60 seconds in a minute. We all reach January 1st on the same day. However, due to our perceptions, of that time feels different or everyone.
I'm not a scientist, nor do I claim to be one. I still hold on to my little pet theory for humors sake, but I can now acually discuss it with some real knowledge.
And just think... this all spawned from time seeming to pass too slowly one day.
