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From: ahs@burl.UUCP (Spinks Albert H. )
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Subject: Visualization of time
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 11:03:45 EST
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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."
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				     Albert H. Spinks