Scientists have discovered why in adulthood, time goes faster than in childhood
Remember your school years and the endless lessons that seemed to last forever! Right, now time is flying much faster? No longer need look to count down the days until the holiday, you will not even notice as they pass! It seems only yesterday you went with friends to the club, and today come to the birthdays of their children.
So why did time dragged on well slowly now as if flies past you? Scientists have tried to understand this phenomenon, and that's what they got.
So, we have for you two news: good and not-so-Good is that the clock with age began to move faster. Bad — has your perception changed.
Physicist Adrian Bejan of Duke University (USA) proposed to divide time into two components. "Time clock" is an objective time, which we see on the clock. And "time of mind" — that time as we experience it.
According to Bejan, over the years greatly changed the relation of man to the world and time including. In the childhood it seemed to us that the days are much longer due to the fact that during this period the curious mind of a child received a lot of new experiences, learning something previously unknown.
"Old" mind can't process information as fast as it does the mind of a child. Therefore, the speed of perception mental imagery every year is greatly reduced.
Adrian Bejan assumption can be confirmed also from the point of view of ophthalmology. Human eyes are constantly in motion, and as soon as they finish processing one image, immediately switch to another. These movements are called saccades, and brief pause between them, during which the eye holds their attention in a certain way, commits.
Now, the eyes of an adult commits an average of three to five saccades per second with fixations lasting 200-300 milliseconds. The children of pause between saccades are much shorter, so for the same length of time their eyes can "read" a larger number of images.
The reason is that, with age, the human brain processes information more slowly, which gives him the retina. Speaking in simple words, this process is somewhat similar to time-lapse photography. The human eye is constantly making various frames and sends them "processing" the brain.
Children pause (fixing) between the frames is much shorter than in adults. Therefore, adults perceive things differently — the events that they have time to fix between "frames", creating the illusion that time flows faster.
Well, now you know why the summer goes so quickly, and the son just yesterday was crawling under the table, and now goes to the army.
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