The future sure isn't living up to it's promises

[Ivo]

@ Mod_Man can you point me to some source material for the part about the human brain processing time faster as you age? That sounds like some very interesting reading material.

I'm not sure this is actually well established. Even if it is, it is probably something relating to the actual aging of the brain rather than something that would happen if the brain was kept "young" even though it accrued years (I mean obviously if someone was to live 1000 years the brain would have to be kept "young" somehow).

Back to the part of the time processing, I think children see time "slower" than "adults" because their heart rate is faster (similarly, you can "slow down time" and have better reflexes etc when your pumping during exercise etc.) - but of course in a complex way with hormones and so on. Just to say that our "characteristic frequency" is probably our heart rate. This would also go for older persons with feeble heart rates.

Ivo.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

@ Mod_Man can you point me to some source material for the part about the human brain processing time faster as you age? That sounds like some very interesting reading material.

I'm not sure this is actually well established. Even if it is, it is probably something relating to the actual aging of the brain rather than something that would happen if the brain was kept "young" even though it accrued years (I mean obviously if someone was to live 1000 years the brain would have to be kept "young" somehow).

Back to the part of the time processing, I think children see time "slower" than "adults" because their heart rate is faster (similarly, you can "slow down time" and have better reflexes etc when your pumping during exercise etc.) - but of course in a complex way with hormones and so on. Just to say that our "characteristic frequency" is probably our heart rate. This would also go for older persons with feeble heart rates.

Ivo.

In honestly can't remember where i read it (I originally read about it years back.), but after a quick Google search this is the best example I can come up with:
http://www.peterrussell.com/WUIT/Sing.php

It' not the best example, but it shows how change accelerates over time exponentially which can simulate compressed time lines and time flowing by much faster than it actually does. As well as explaining "Timewave Zero" which is where change will accelerate past the point of no return to become an infinite constant until there there's nothing left to discover or invent.

[Limewater]

Back to the part of the time processing, I think children see time "slower" than "adults" because their heart rate is faster (similarly, you can "slow down time" and have better reflexes etc when your pumping during exercise etc.) - but of course in a complex way with hormones and so on. Just to say that our "characteristic frequency" is probably our heart rate. This would also go for older persons with feeble heart rates.

I think a more likely explanation for why children see time as "slower" than adults is that they just haven't been alive very long, and can't really remember the first few years anyway. So, to a five year old who can only really remember much of the last two years of his life, a year seems like half a lifetime away.

[toredauei]

Youve gotten the point exactly. The show focused on how nanomachines would somehow ward off invading viruses and also perpetuate cell division thus keeping the brain and other organs "young".

Anyhow, I cant see how aging would have an effect on the passage of time. The only thing that has an impact on time is the speed at which something is traveling and age certainly has nothing to do with speed.

[Limewater]

Anyhow, I cant see how aging would have an effect on the passage of time. The only thing that has an impact on time is the speed at which something is traveling and age certainly has nothing to do with speed.

Well, really here the issue isn't passage of time but perception of time. So there could be something to this, but I still find it doubtful.

Like, if your brain was on a clock signal, like a computer is, and only updated its state once per clock cycle, one's perception of time could be changed by adjusting the clock frequency. However, as far as I know the human brain does not work anything like that.

[fastbilly1]

Yall disappoint me. You take an excellent Back to the Future two topic and start talking about perceived progression of time. Lets get back to how awesome having a hoverboard would be.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Yall disappoint me. You take an excellent Back to the Future two topic and start talking about perceived progression of time. Lets get back to how awesome having a hoverboard would be.

I'm still upset that we never got the Wild Gunman mind control update.

[BoringSupreez]

Yall disappoint me. You take an excellent Back to the Future two topic and start talking about perceived progression of time. Lets get back to how awesome having a hoverboard would be.

Yeah, this e=mc2 stuff is pretty dull. I want moon colonies, please.

[superlarz]

Yall disappoint me. You take an excellent Back to the Future two topic and start talking about perceived progression of time. Lets get back to how awesome having a hoverboard would be.

Yeah, this e=mc2 stuff is pretty dull. I want moon colonies, please.

I want Mars colonies.

[Haoie]

Internet, eh?