hudixtin Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: As I get older, I see seconds tick physically faster. Am I alone?”
Here's the video from Veritasium around same topic link to this video Video explains it in detail about why this happens.
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Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Veritasium
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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.
7.9M views10 years ago4 recommendations
Brain and nervesNeuroscienceMemory and learning
Derek Muller explains the psychological and physiological reasons why our perception of time accelerates as we get older.
Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down? Thanks to the National Geographic Channel for sponsoring this video! The new season of Brain Games starts Sunday, February 14th at 9/8c - po.st/90S7Ow Brain Games is an Emmy-nominated TV series that explores the inner workings of the human mind through experiments and interactive games. Did you know it's estimated that you have more than a dozen senses in addition to the standard five? One of those is a sense of time or chronoception. Tune in to the new season of Brain Games to learn about all of your senses, and more, starting Sunday, February 14 at 9/8c References: Ageing and duration judgement: bit.ly/1TRN0cr Nerve conduction velocity slowing with age: bit.ly/23Wq6oE Experiments with rats suggest time perception is distributed across brain: bit.ly/1T6IjdO Time perception with repeated stimuli: bit.ly/1TRNbo5 Energy usage in brain with age: bit.ly/1nXliOU Time perception in moments of fear / danger: bit.ly/1RoK7Ps 1.usa.gov/1TRNa3w bit.ly/1Q8tDvW Attention’s relation to time perception and recollection of perceived time: bit.ly/20odeD8 bit.ly/1TRNfEfWhy it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a clear and entertaining explanation of chronoception and how our perception of time changes with age.
shmdein Hacker News • Recommends
On “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”
There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" link to this video
cornstalksin Hacker News • Recommends
On “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”
That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: link to this video
activatedgeekin Hacker News • Recommends
On “Perceived Age”
This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video 1 for the interested. 1: link to this video (2016)
mortehuin Hacker News • Mentions
On “Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf]”
Veritasium has a video about this subject: link to this video It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.