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Time speeds up as you get older [message #26096]

Sat, 10 September 2005 00:02

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

Looking through everything2.com, an internet encylopaedia (though not usually as scholarly as Wikipedia) I came across the following:

"Life is half over at age 10"
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=932039

The mathematics goes completely over my head, but (assuming it is right) it strikes me as both alarming and depressing. At 21, I'm 70% of the way through my life? Is this be why our childhoods often mean so much to us? And why so much of the way we are is influenced by what we are exposed to as children, when we are less intellectually able to reason with what we are told?

Are there any mathematicians or psychologists on the board who can debunk this?

I'll give it some thought and repost tomorrow. I am virtually asleep at the moment.

		Time speeds up as you get older By: Deeej on Sat, 10 September 2005 00:02
		Re: Time speeds up as you get older By: timmy on Sat, 10 September 2005 08:23
		Re: Time speeds up as you get older By: marc on Sat, 10 September 2005 10:08
		Re: Time speeds up as you get older By: timmy on Sat, 10 September 2005 10:22
		Re: Time speeds up as you get older By: Deeej on Sat, 10 September 2005 11:52

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