<p>I asked 200 people (who include my friends and family members in age group of 15 to 70 years living in cities) how they feel about time ? Do they feel that the time is passing faster as compared to when they were child? 
95% of those people say that now a days time is passing much faster than lets say 50 years back when they were younger.</p>

<p>Is this an established fact and can be explained using theory of relativity or any other law that time (may be on average) is passing faster <em>now</em>  as compared to lets say 50 yrs or may be 1000 yrs back?<br>
Or is it only a subjective experience? </p>

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2014-04-12T09:18:34.113Z
This is not about the physics of time at all, It's about the psychology of *feeling* time!
Volker Siegel
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2014-04-27T08:09:06.593Z
No, it has nothing to do with aging. The more the person gets older, the more they receive outer impressions automaticaly/roboticaly. A child takes in impressions much much more consciously. When/IF a man can take impressions in always consciously - time "almost" stops...When you look around at other people you see nothing but totaly predictable robots, people in deep sleep/illusion.
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Time passing faster now as compared to 50 years (or 1000yrs) back ?
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# Time passing faster now as compared to 50 years (or 1000yrs) back ?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-12)

I asked 200 people (who include my friends and family members in age group of 15 to 70 years living in cities) how they feel about time ? Do they feel that the time is passing faster as compared to when they were child?
95% of those people say that now a days time is passing much faster than lets say 50 years back when they were younger.

Is this an established fact and can be explained using theory of relativity or any other law that time (may be on average) is passing faster *now* as compared to lets say 50 yrs or may be 1000 yrs back?  
Or is it only a subjective experience?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This is not about the physics of time at all, It's about the psychology of *feeling* time!  
> **username_2**: No, it has nothing to do with aging. The more the person gets older, the more they receive outer impressions automaticaly/roboticaly. A child takes in impressions much much more consciously. When/IF a man can take impressions in always consciously - time "almost" stops...When you look around at other people you see nothing but totaly predictable robots, people in deep sleep/illusion.  

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