[Vision2020] Putting Time In Perspective

[Scott Dredge]

> Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is 
> not one of them.

Time is an illusion.  New research claims that for some animals, such as a fly and a dog, time moves at a slower rate

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/q-why-is-it-so-hard-to-swat-a-housefly-a-it-sees-you-coming-in-slow-motion-8818124.html


> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:55:00 -0700
> From: kmmos1 at frontier.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Putting Time In Perspective
> 
> Putting Time In Perspective
> 
> Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is 
> not one of them. It's not our fault—the spans of time in human history, 
> and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of 
> our life and recent history that it's almost impossible to get a handle 
> on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the 
> next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 
> 11:59:59pm—1 second. And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one 
> midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ.
> 
> http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html?m=1
> 
> 
> Ken
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