Pain, welcome into the short stuff. This is a happy new year and welcome to the short so on Chuck its twenty twenty. It is worth living in the future. Yes, while I'm Josh in Theirs Chuck in, there is guess producer, J, J over there and we're all living in the future. Two thousand and twenty I've got my jetpack flying car sweet and yet time to find chuck. Do you know why it's flying a hold on him about? You

spill on my plate. Yet how to add water to it to make it easier thanks giving dinner? Oh, I thought it was a potter's dinner, happy that it always was bought rose. Wouldn't it yes, your fairly. Is it but thanks giving us a closer in future. As far as future food pills go fuck I had just had a delicious, was it didn't? Did it have any kind of blueberry dessert like Willie Wonka those accomplished, so you said something you said time flies who times flying agreed time flying and then I ask you why time is fine. You didn't answer so many answer for you. Is because were aged. Yes, we're getting old chuck, I noted, as anyone who has ever got an old knows, the all you get. The faster time goes where you're, just Google, your work in work and work in India, lift your head up and all of a sudden, its march and then its July, and then it's the holiday,

and then the next March and the next July did he die pretty much induce her to get a little panic. Because ass you like wait a minute wait. A minute is the years are important and I need to pay attention to them, but it everybody knows that azure. When you're grown up, you have so many more responsibilities, and when your kid, of course I'm gonna fly thing is there are there seems to be objective evidence that time actually does speed up as you age relative to your experience like subjectively, you experienced time moving fast sir, as you age, and that doesn't quite make sense, yeah and there's. This has always been an interesting concept or at my head around, because this definitely something that you cannot avoid noticing. As you get a little older, there was one study done about this kind of interesting in the nineties. A psychologist named Peter

Ben Gunn, mad man gun you butchered that bitter Mannion they go and he had twenty five young people between nineteen, twenty four and then fifteen older people between sixteen eighty. I'm sorry, we quick. I also saw that he had some middle aged people to become. I would think so. Yeah cause it's a big job yeah, to estimate a three minute time interval just by counting out loud yeah. So he said: hey you sixteen year old count out. Three minutes Second by second going one one thousand to one thousand right, and so the younger said averaged three minutes in three seconds: they kind of nails, He went over to the older said. He woke them up worse than they would say what three minutes in forty seconds is what they ever so they were off by thirty seven seconds from the younger set in

You know basically thinking that three minutes at a lapse, and the thinking here is- is that hate, your brains, internal clock, run slowly if you're older right and this proves it right so in that would mean that, if your, if your internal clock is running slowly relative to the actual passage of time, then, to you, it would seem like time is speeding up, because what counting off his way, slower than what is actually going on, which would account for why it would seem like time. Speeds up is, as we get older because it actually is relative. Do our own internal! box. Yeah, there's a few ideas behind this one is that our biological internal clocks do slow down or metabolism slows down yet are breathing her heart beat. I listened to my daughter's hard media that it but my ear to reach ass. She did the same to me,

In her heart was gone, but the problem, but a problem if we were to hang out edge Listen, a mine and it was like, beat and reasoned forded between every beat that's great may, like a cranky gears yeah. I saw it heard her nose. Like did you just run a sprint like what is going on in that room? hit me like it's different when you're a little kid yeah, kids metabolisms are way faster, their bodies just operating way faster and then, as you age, all of these processes start to kind of level, often and slow down the story or death basically, exit ramp, that's another way to put it, but the the idea behind this is that there's this internal clock, not our circadian ridge, which is the you know how we know window to like wake up her eager of that kind of stuff yeah. This is it a separate internal clock that we actually measured time with

and its theoretical we'd never found it, but they think that its located in this dry, Adam in the MID brain and that it uses in internal and external cues to measure time and one of their internal cues that it uses is something like heartbeat or breaths. And so, if you're a kid and your breathing faster and your heart, beating faster time, seems to pass more slowly because your clock has speeded up. It's the exact opposite of what would happen if those breaths in those heartbeat slow down as you age and your your clock slows down. So it seems, like time is speeding rather than going slowly, yeah there's another idea, I mean there's a lot too. That is, it is probably all of these things combined well yeah. A lot of them do have to do with his brains, internal clock thing. Yes, absolutely, Yet. Another idea is that a child. As so many new experiences every day. You know you hear about a kid being a sponge and

everything is brand new and, as you know, you get to our age and you have a job and you live in a house and you have a certain commute and you do certain things and you're walking the dog. It's like it's a repetitive in many cases, it repented, the circumstance of doing the same things over and over and over so no newness there, and so all those new experiences aren't happening to us like their happening to children this, when I wonder if you did a test where you only experience new thing still as an adult and as if you were a child, if that would counter the time is flying affair. You would think it well. I don't know how you would tell that, but you know that theory says have a lot of money, roughly the aperture sure plus also be like whatever. Whatever you do. It has thus I want to do because that sounds like a lot of fine right. It's. The idea is that you have like all of these

requires more brain processing to to process these. Novel stimuli rather than just letting life pass, you biogas, it's all familiar right and so kind of in this, way that your hearts beating faster in your breathing more it, it makes your clock run faster and so time seems to pass more slowly. It's basically the same thing, but rather than heartbeat it's my its processing, new, again periods and that also the kind of ties into this other thing that you due notice in addition to time passing more quickly when you age, is that it's easy to just kind of to be in a rut as you age too, because there are so so fewer experiences that are just brand new to you here, we ve done it all done scene. It done it. I was take. A break was go to something new and I will come back and see how that feels right after this

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One thing I did want to mention was the notion of an something I've noticed from being a kid being adult. If you drive to a vacation as it always seemed as a kid like getting to the vacation happened, we fast, because maybe your excited about things. You're gonna do or no no, it seemed super slow. When you were a kid cause. The anticipation and driving on the way home went super fast, that is, For me as an adult is when I drive to a vacation, it goes pretty fast cause, I'm super excited, but on the way home, it's a slug right, kids. You know you're coming back to a recording session with many have not that. But it's weird is there a switch happens at some point yeah, and I think that has to do with the same well. Some of these theories suggest, as do the same thing you you

are actually that there would be kind of new and on its own huh yeah. I think it's worth it flies in the face of that little bit me yeah yeah, because I dont know if the with the answers from neighbouring an adventure what about this guy Steve Taylor, who wrote a book called making time? He has a theory that basically because If we become more familiar with everything as we go, by not only are there fewer experiences new experiences to be had yet, but the experience is that we have over and over again become so familiar to us. They barely Avram Ready, sure when they do happen. Right, which makes time seem to pass even more quickly because we're processing the last new information it kind of ties into that that that brain processing- one it's just it just kind of really drives home- how grim adults,

yeah and could be aided by the fact that you're not getting as many dopamine heads, because this novel stimuli not coming along is often right so that all ties back into that bring clock thing again to which is the idea that when we went our that part of our mid brain is learning to measure time, as is doing that it gets little hits a dope a mean to help train it. While they found that you're hits of dopamine decrease. As you age, which also kind of correlate with the idea that time seems to go faster as we age or biological clock seem to start run slower, so they think that maybe that that we give us getting less dopamine is part of that the internal clock, slowing down thing right the thing that makes a lot of sense to me and we're not gonna get too in the weeds with what logarithmic scales are. But let's just say this: if you measuring earthquake on the Richter scale, that's a logarithmic scale and it's not the same as a link.

Your scale right. So if you jump from ten to eleven on the Richter scale, it's like a tenfold jump. It's not a ten percent job right is good enough for that. I think so great. So I think this this can apply to life in this. What makes a lot of sense, because if you are a tenure, and then you ve experienced one year is ten percent of your life. So that's a big chunk yet, but by the time you get to twenty, it's only five percent and we could keep go in here and it just smoke more depressing yeah as you go, but they basically arson and you should think of it in terms of this logarithmic scales opposed to a linear scale, because by the time you get to you now sixty cents eighty years old, that's a big Chuckie. Your life, that's gone by at that point

right and so any new amount of time that goes by is proportional to the increasingly larger amount of time that has gone by right, and so, if that's how we process a measure the time in our lifetime- the longer you're alive. The longer it takes to seem like a lot of time, has passed by like this guy Christian Yates from University of bath. He said the reason why, if the summer lasted so long or it took so long to for a birthday to come in and get a new one to come, get you that year. If you like five, like you're, saying this, like a fifth of your life, you radical each of you like if year fifty One year is a fiftieth of your life, so a year can distort, does it by and bye and faster and faster, the more you age and he ended with something here

You get article in the conversation so shut out to him for that one, but he basically said for you to experience what seems to you is the same amount of time between the ages of five and ten would require you to live from aged forty two age. Eighty suppressing proportionately speaking, the area will be the same suggested subjective experience of time for you here, because occasionally, I will think, like will say, get twenty more great years left and then I think that's not much time, but then a man from birth. Age, twenty was for ever yeah, so I'm good, but that's not how it works. The egg is twenty to forty seemed as if by a lot faster than zero to twenty here have salute me. I think I think they're onto something with that last one right so on thoroughly depress. Now I am too, let's go celebrate twenty twenty buddy. Actually we don't need to be

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