metaphysical question about time - Page 2

On July 01 2011 01:53 TheGiz wrote:
Time is merely a human relative concept, in the universe there is no such thing as time, really. Everything is relative to everything else, and the passage of time is only a descriptor for any relative sequence of events.

If you were to stop the motion of all matter in the Universe, time would not pass, because there would be no relative motion between objects - everything would simply be stationary, and nothing would be happening in sequence.

The adult concept of time passing faster is wrong in the sense that they experience everything in sequence just like everything else. What they're experiencing is purely psychological in that the passage of time seems faster because they observe more events to be monotonous and benign. If you don't care about what's happening around you, you tend not to notice the passage of time, which means that you simply don't notice the relative change in things around you. It's tunnel vision, basically.

tl;dr Adults perceive information differently than younger people and they don't recognize what's going around them as much.