Tempus Fugit
Posted on Monday 10th October 2011
So they say. The concept of time contraction (and or dilation) is one of the great metaphysical clichés. Yet we are all aware of the effect.
For example, and the reason for this update, it’s now a year since I started my full-time job. No longer am I “the new guy”. The past year seems to have passed quickly in the sense that I can recall very vividly my first day. But over that year a great deal has happened and I have had some mixed experiences. Looking back, while the year has in one sense gone quickly, at the same time it seems like quite a while ago. A very strange mental conflict that is beyond the ability of my dyslexic English to describe.
Indeed, soon it will be 5 years since we came to Australia. Those years seem to have gone at quite a pace, yet now looking back it does seem like another age. Again the contradiction. This has been documented elsewhere, but usually the phenomenon is one of a correlation between the passage of time and how fun that time is. My perception is that time, while unfailingly linear, not only does not run at a constant speed … regardless of what the atomic clock might say … but also passes at those variables rates simultaneously.
