25 Mind Blowing Facts About Time

Prepare to be amazed as we uncover 25 Mind Blowing Facts About Time that will challenge your perception of reality!

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Discover the fascinating world of time with our video "Mind-Blowing Facts About Time." From the secrets of Einstein's theory of relativity to the quirks of time dilation, we'll unravel the mysteries of this fundamental concept.

Music: Thinker Time - Nathan Moore
Author: Oluwabukunmi

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
25 - The Mythological Explanation of Time
24 - 24. Einstein Gave Us Our First Insight Into The Physics Of Time
23 - Einstein Also Changed The Way We Thought About Gravity
22 - Gravity Is Also Making Our Days Longer
21 - Music Can Change Your Perception Of Time
20 - Using Illegal Substances Changes Your Perception Of Time
19 - Time Goes Faster As You Age, Sort Of
18 - The Railroad Industry Standardized Our Time Zones
17 - The New York Minute
16 - The Human Mind Cannot Understand The Concept Of Eternity
15 - Leap Years And The Challenges of Leapers
14 - The Leap Second
13 - There Could Be Multiple Versions Of This Exact Moment In Time
12 - The Ancients And Circular Time
11 - Time And Real Duration
10 - We Can Slow Time Down
9 - What Time Looks Like
8 - Time Doesn’t Exist
7 - Shorter People Experience Time Differently
6 - Time Is Going By Slower Than Ever Before - And We Can Actually See It
5 - The Specious Present
4 - That Moment When Time Seems To Slow Down
3 - Time As A Dimension
2 - The Mysteries of Deep Time
1 - We Still Have No Idea How Time Works
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[dannyreynolds]

I was in a horrible car wreck when I was 18. We were going 100 mph, flipped, and cork scre rolled half dozen times, then slip upside down about 150 feet. During the accident everything was in slow motion. I remember thinking "I should move my arm from outside the window before the car lands on my arm". I calmly moved my arm, and I casually watched the pavement hit the window where my arm had just been. Obviously time didn't slow down and the wreck happened in mere seconds, but my perception of time allowed me to save my arm from being severed. I wasn't the driver, nobody was even injured except me with a minor cut to my hand, which I don't recall even happening at all. Just my personal anecdote about the perception of time in a potentially deadly situation.

[.choice]

This is so true it seems like you go to sleep when you're 20 and when you wake up you're 60 and when you look into the mirror you wonder who that old person is looking back at you so when you're young you need to push yourself in order to be who you want to be when you get old always remember you can change tomorrow but you will never be able to change yesterday

[jakobburton-sundman]

Having been in a coma. After coming out of it, I've said, " I treasure every moment I'm conscious, I don't care if my life is going to crap, at least I know it's going to crap."

[crystalratclffe]

DEPRESSION: Living in the past (cure: you can't change it) ANXIETY Living and worrying about the future ( waste of time once you've done what you can to prepare) HAPPINESS Living in mindfulness of the NOW

[jerelull]

A great T-shirt:" I don't know HOW to act my age; I've never been this old before.

[robertcooney]

Time goes faster as you age because time is relative. A two year old's "year" is half of their entire existence. A 70 year old, one year is 1/70th of their entire existence. So, to a two year old a year is half of forever.

[sarahdawn]

Years ago my friend and I were in an accident in which she was driving and we were traveling on a busy city street with 3 lanes of traffic in either direction. We were in the far right lane as we approached a cross street and I noticed a small pick up approaching from the left. He had a stop sign but did not stop and simply continued across the 6 lanes of traffic. My friend was looking straight ahead and didnt see the truck. As the truck crossed each lane I remember thinking "We're going to hit! We're going to hit! We're going to hit!" Then we collided. I explained to my friend later how suprised I was that I could see the danger coming and literally thought the words "We're going to hit!" 3 times in that split second before impact, a time so brief that it was impossible to even utter a sound.
It wasnt like slow motion. It was just the first time I was aware of how incredibly fast the brain thinks.

[DonnyRocker]

Because every day is a smaller percentage of your entire life

[michaelccopelandsr]

Time is fascinating. I worked the subway stations for nearly 10 years. From one end of the city to the other. Every so often I would notice the city would be saying that, "Today just flew by" or "The day was just dragging along."  How can an entire city, with no interaction with each other until they used the subway, complain about the same time paradox unless it was effected by it? MAYBE a time distorted bubble the earth passes through in its revolution around the sun. MAYBE they're the effects of gravitational waves. Either side of the wave effecting time just enough for we humans to notice. Making time seem to drag on the upside and fly by on the downslope. MAYBE they're given off by the sun. MAYBE they're from outside our Solar system and reach us in intervals. ???? 🎶Ti-i-i-ime, is on my side. Yes, it is!🎶
If you can think of a better way to do a blind survey of an entire city, in the small window of opportunity, I'm all in.  Until then, I invite you to spend a couple years in the subways during rush hour and you'll see for yourself.  Just listen as an entire city gets off of work and gets out of school.  You'll see it's more than a, "coincidence of circumstances."  ;-P

[allenabrams-dwhy]

Time is a personal event, space is universal.

[hilsbroorjlch]

I like the analogy of a pad of post it notes with a sharp stick pin all the way through them. The note pad is time and the straight pin is yourself. So you are connected to every point in time all at once even though you’re only experiencing it “now.”

[Royston]

I had a career as an Authorised Firearms Officer in London’s Metropolitan Police. Whilst I thankfully never had to fire my weapon in anger, there were a number of occasions when I had to deal with an armed suspect. Happily these were all resolved without incident. However the stress was enormous. My experience was that time slowed down. This enabled me to think and react relatively faster. I am convinced that time did not actually slow down but it was something to with the brain’s evolution, so that you ‘had more time’ to deal with a life threatening situation.

[duvalovertonii]

This was like a roller coaster of calm and chaos if you have agoraphobia or existential anxiety…lol..some moments are like “oh…I can somewhat dictate how I experience time” and then other moments are like…”nope, time is my master and I can’t do anything but be a helpless slave to it”…lol

[dalemettee]

My thoughts are this. when you're 10 Y/O a year is 1 tenth of your life When you're 70 Y/O, one year is only 1/70 of your life. So you figure it out.

[Tomana_]

time is a constant, a second is a unit of measure of time. Digitally speaking, 1 second will ALWAYS have the same number of '1's and '0's and so, as you age, YOUR PERCEPTION of time is what changes, not time itself.

[FreeSpiritinLightandLove]

As we age time does appear to go by faster. But you can slow it down by living as much time as you can “in the moment”. The less time I spend thinking about the past or planning (worrying about?) for the future, it slows down somewhat. ❤ It’s like perpetually stopping to smell the roses.

[thetony]

Fun fact; time moves fast, if the minute hand on a clock was 9.55 miles long, the tip would be moving at 60mph! 😁

[BillC]

I'll tell you what... Those really smart people sure do look at time in a real stupid way sometimes. It never started and never ends. It's just something we made up to keep track of the things we've done and things we want to do. You can't change it and there isn't more than 1. It just is, even if nobody is around to experience it... Time passes. Make the most of it because while it may go on forever, we don't have much left.

[MandoReyna-cmsu]

As soon as you hit 50 years old time goes by faster no matter what you're doing. Yesterday I turned 50. Today I'm 52.

[TheJoker]

Time flies when you're having fun and nearly stops if you get miserable enough. At least the perceived passing of time does.