Monday, January 09, 2006

Why does the passage of time seem to accelerate as we grow older?

This is a good question. Rose often talked about the concept of 'duration', and how we actually determined the length of a second, minute, or an hour. He said that space and time were incontrovertibly intertwined, and without space there was no time, and without time there was no space, as is the subject of scientific relativity experiments. To a man in a delirium, a second can seem like an hour, whereas to a man in love, an hour with his beloved can seem like a second. It may well be that time is not passing, and that it is our consciousness or awareness that is moving though an already played out strand or drama, of which we take ourselves to be the main character. We are but a Witness, in the Final Analysis, though this is theory until proven by experience for each individual.

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