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Why Time Flies By As You Get Older

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

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  1. Re:Michio Kaku by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Informative

    If Picard ever stopped to think about it, I'd imagine that might begin to worry him...

    Picard would probably use his 100-billion neurons firing 1,000 times per second = 100-trillion operations/second to ask "Why is Data so slow? Can't he get an upgrade?"