ahs@burl.UUCP (Spinks Albert H. ) (01/11/86)
Concerning our visualization of time, in the last several years, it has occurred to me that we visualize time logarithmically, analogous to the way we humans sense many thing, most famously sound. What I'm getting at is that at 10 years of age, 5 years is 1/2 of our life. Therefore, at that age we perceive 5 years as being relative large. At 50 years of age, 5 yrs is 1/10 of our life. Thus we visualize it as being a shorter period of time than we did at 10 years. ETC. Therefore we have the common feeling, as we get older, of "how time flies." -- Albert H. Spinks
merrill@raja.DEC (01/17/86)
I've always thought of the months of the year as a circle that progresses in a counterclockwise direction with summer months at 9:00 and january at 3:00 ( the "uphill" part of the year seems to go so slowly! ) Actually its not quite symetrical: April to December is "easy"/downhill and the 3 other months take up more space! Rick Merrill