The Questions · the self · moments
Why does time fly, and why does it crawl?
Why does an hour with someone you love vanish, and five minutes in a waiting room last a small eternity? Same sixty minutes on the clock. Completely different amount of life.
Density of moments, not duration.
The waiting-room person lives more moments in five minutes than the absorbed person lives in three hours.
A moment ends the instant any of the four lines changes.
What this settles
So the clock was never measuring the thing you actually felt. What moved was the count of configurations, and the count is set by how much was changing inside them.
What it leaves open
What is the grain of a moment?
Raised in this footing and marked open by the foundation itself.
Not this question
When we are?
Also in this footing, and a different question. That one defines the unit. This one explains the rate.
Also asked as
- So what does move a life forward, if not the clock?
- Why does an hour with someone you love vanish, and five minutes in a waiting room last a small eternity?
- How do you get more life out of the same years?
Where this is worked out
Groundhog Day Is a Complete Theory of Time
Why Time Flies and Why It Crawls
Why Doesn't the Day Change Until You Do?
How Do You Get More Life Out of the Same Years?
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Moments
When a moment ends and what makes the next one — why an hour vanishes and five minutes will not, and how fine a change has to be before it counts. 2 of the 3 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- When we are?walked
- What is the grain of a moment?not explored yet