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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.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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There are loads ofcomplex equations, but the basic premise is sound.
I've always had the sme thoughts. A symptom is kids who atr "four and three quarters" as opposed to just 4. Grownups have always had an instinctive realisation that time has a very different meanimng to a young child.
I would take this further and suggest that time, in a double maths lesson with Rex Goddard runs so slowly as to be static whatever your age.
I'll be delighted if anyone knows who Rex is!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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It all is a matter of perception and expectation.....
When you are young time has no meaning because a child just plainly doesn't understand the concept. The interval between events in a child's mind seem to take forever to unfold because the childs expectation is blown all out of proportion.... i.e.... Christmas Eve to a child lasts forever, but for an adult the wait is only another night in a long string of nights.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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I disagree that a child does not understand the concept. I agree that an infant does not.
As a child I knew how very long boring lessons were. I knew I was not yet 5, but that being 4 took ages to pass. I knew about the awful long time between being in bed and falling asleep, especially in the summer when it was bright daylight but past my bed time.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Something I also remember about being young was how boring everything was! Adults seem to assume that children can play with the same things for hours without getting bored; in fact, often I remember playing with things simply because I had nothing better to do. And, of course, when you are bored, time passes very slowly.
Now I have reading and the internet and programming and script-writing and film-making and piano-playing... Only the first applied then, and it was limited to the books I would be able to wrangle out of my parents (when your pocket money is a pound a week, the two or three pounds (then) for a new book was a collosal amount of money).
When I have children of my own I will make sure that I find things for them to do. I hope they turn out to be geeks, because once you master a computer the world is your oyster.
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