Another deep thought thread.........on the subject of time.

Illini said:

But if you take two clocks that are accurate to within one second every million years and put one in Denver, and the other in Greenwich, England.......at the end of a year's time, one will be ahead of the other by 5 seconds, because time is different at the higher altitude than at sea level. Think about that for a minute.

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tatehill2000 said:

At what time does a connection occur? if you go down the mountain at what point do you reconnect with those 5 seconds? The idea that the rest of the world will be forever ahead of me 5 seconds in time? What if you make a PHONE call to someone below sea level? and you stay on the phone for 6 months? what happens to that 2.5 seconds? did you now BRIDGE time and space? crazyness?

(I hope your well Illini! )

tater

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gynecologist said:

I was thinking about something similar yesterday..

My gf and I spent almost the entire day on the beach... from 12pm to 7pm. 7 hours!!

I work 6 hours at my job .. the time at the beach felt like 10 mins compared to work.

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Doug said:

It has a lot to do with your perception on time passing.

If you have some miserable job ( most jobs), well 8 hours driving around and pumping out chemical toilets is going to seem a lot longer than hanging out at the beach/ pool with some chicks and partying...

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tatehill2000 said:

At what time does a connection occur? if you go down the mountain at what point do you reconnect with those 5 seconds? The idea that the rest of the world will be forever ahead of me 5 seconds in time? What if you make a PHONE call to someone below sea level? and you stay on the phone for 6 months? what happens to that 2.5 seconds? did you now BRIDGE time and space? crazyness?

(I hope your well Illini! )

tater

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Illini said:

Einstein discovered that time is not constant, and was quoted as saying that the only difference between the past, present, and future is the illusion in your own mind. That is why some people refuse to give up on the idea of time travel. Will it ever happen? No, I don't think so because man is too finite and limited. But if you take two clocks that are accurate to within one second every million years and put one in Denver, and the other in Greenwich, England.......at the end of a year's time, one will be ahead of the other by 5 seconds, because time is different at the higher altitude than at sea level. Think about that for a minute.

Even more than the scientific stuff, I really feel that time is in no way constant in the here and now. I mean, every single person I've ever mentioned this to agrees that a year as a child was a very long time. And as an adult, a year is a blink of an eye. Time loses value and gets faster the older you get.

And within each day, time is not the same. I went to the Cardinals game last Sunday and the game went 19 innings. I LOVE going to games and love my team, but after 4 hours, I was ready to go. The game ended up going 6 hours, 15 minutes, and I don't know if I could have sat through that. Yet, I have a new job that I love, and the workdays fly by. I go in and sit down, and before I know it, it's time to go. 8 hour work days can't possibly last longer than a 4 hour baseball game. It's all perception, but I haven't found anyone that disagrees.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy

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Illini said:

Even more than the scientific stuff, I really feel that time is in no way constant in the here and now. I mean, every single person I've ever mentioned this to agrees that a year as a child was a very long time. And as an adult, a year is a blink of an eye. Time loses value and gets faster the older you get.

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mnmike said:

Your numbers are way off, the time displacement for the slight differences would be millionths of a second, not 5 seconds, and it would be due to differences in relative speed, not elevation. Therefore your point is null and void, if you want to say something, just say it, no need to make up nonsense.

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hosnatcher said:

I always think about this one myself. Time and distance are different in our eyes as adults then as when we were children. For one thing is when we are younger we don't look at a calendar as we do as adults. A year as a child is viewed through a school year. We looked forward to spring break, winter break and summer vacation. As an adult there are no breaks in our life the days and months just bleed together. Also as kids there was always a next step in life or a milestone to hit. We moved on from kindergarten to 1st grade, then on to second grade... then there was moving onto junior high and finally high school. We also got little perks as we reached certain ages that we anxiously looked forward to. At age 16 we were old enough to drive, at 18 we were considered adults, at 21 we could legally drink and gamble. After age 21 nobody really anticipates the next birthday. Who tells themselves that they can't wait until they turn 30 or 40. So that in a sense turns off the clock in our head that revolves around getting older.

I recently moved back to the same area that I grew up in and it still gets me trippin on old memories. I remember a day lasting so long from sun up to sun down and it felt like we did so much in a day but now as an adult sun up to sun down just breezes through. I remember as a kid skateboarding or riding my back up and down my town and not really noticing how much time I actually spent going from place to place. I would sometimes ride my back to a friends house or a place to hang that was 4 or 5 miles in terms of distance and then hang for 3 hours which seemed like a long time back then. As an adult just driving 15 minutes out of the way seems like a waste of time and just spending 3 hours at home watching television goes by just like that.

I still remember this one day when I was 18 years old that seemed like the longest day of my life. I woke up and went to pick up a friend of mine so we can go to her grandmothers house and make her spaghetti. Then after that we went to a coworker of mines shotgun wedding. Then onto the reception. After the reception we drove out to the beach to have a bonfire and drink and get high. Then we went to Denny's and met some hippie chicks who were real cool and we tagged along with the hippie chicks to go see Forrest Gump at the drive in. Then after the movie we drove back to the hippie chicks house and drank some tequila. l have no idea how I managed to do all of that in one day. As an adult just doing one of those things in a day is a full day for me.

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Illini said:

So are you smarter than Einstein? Is time constant because you think and feel like it is?

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Drunken Horseplayer said:

He's not saying time is constant, just that it doesn't slow down near as much as the OP suggested and I believe he's right.

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Illini said:

Why does a 4 hour baseball game drag, when I love going to games? Doesn't make sense.

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mnmike said:

Your numbers are way off, the time displacement for the slight differences would be millionths of a second, not 5 seconds, and it would be due to differences in relative speed, not elevation. Therefore your point is null and void, if you want to say something, just say it, no need to make up nonsense.

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