Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?
Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.
I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.
I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.
because you don’t use that for more than single digits or teens
it’s used to slow you down with using monosyllable digits. once you go above twenty, you drop it becaues the digits start becoming 3 or 4 syllables.
i never heard it being used beyond the count of ten. like, you use it as a kid when counting, but i don’t see why an adult would ever do it. i know how long a second is.
That would make time 25% slower.
But no. People just probably talk 25% faster nowThe counting systems were always bullshit. Different people and at different times have wildly different speech tempo. What you can do is trying to find your rhythm by actually saying a word repeatedly as fast as you can without mispronouncing and counting how often you can do that in a minute; That’ll give you a fairly accurate measure you can use.
I’ve always counted too slowly using this method. I think my general cadence is slower than average, as I tend to walk more slowly than most people, in spite of being tall. Also, I need to slow down fast talkers on YouTube, like Louis Rossmann. I imagine he’d get through 45 mississippis in 30 seconds.
You are blessed, this is a much better thing to deal with than walking, talking and counting too fast. I find that it’s more compatibke with human society to operate slightly slower than slightly faster in all these things
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Am I talking more slowly? No, it must be time that’s wrong.
Well it’s the fact that so many others noticed. But I have no way of knowing if they are also old… So that’s my current theory.
The point of those kind of estimation methods is not so you’ll agree with a clock, it’s so you’ll agree with yourself if you do it twice. Using a “foot” as a literal measuring unit isn’t so dumb if only one person is measuring.
In cooking, what a “cup” is in volume can vary by like 30% from cook to cook and depending on environmental factors. But if you’re the same cook, working in the same environment, your method will work every time.
You’re old now and you can’t say mississippi quite as effectively anymore
That’s honestly my dominant theory. And everyone else who is also noticing this is a Genxer.
It’s all relative.
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They’re not wrong but they are inaccurate and unreliable. Clocks, on the other hand, are pretty accurate and reliable, and atomic clocks even moreso, and most digital clocks are now synchronized to the atomic clock standards in some form using the internet or wireless. The definition of time is quite accurately standardized to an extremely high level of precision and has been for a very long time. The human brain is not standardized like this and hopefully will never be because that’s a gross and scary idea.
The definition of a length of time has been maintained with levels of precision that have increased dramatically since ancient times, but at no point in the last, oh, say, at least 1000 years, has the measurement of time changed by anywhere close to 25%.
The antikythera mechanism is believed to be at least 2,000 years old and was able to calculate the passage of time and the motion of the planets far more accurately than Mississippis ever could hope to. The passage of time has not changed the accuracy of that device, only our understanding of the motion of the planets has, and again that’s a human brain problem not a time or motion of the planets problem.
If time was faster or slower, you wouldn’t notice anything. Because time is an expression of causality, and if causality is either faster or slower, it would go for everything, including you, your phone, your watch and everything else.
If time was slower or faster, there would be no way to detect it.I see your point, kind of trippy to think about. Is time constant?
As Einstein said, time is relative. But that only means it is relative to different circumstances.
Moving at light speed time stands still, and the theory is that inside a black hole time also stands still.
So being at a stationary position in non gravity space is the fastest time will go.
But lets make it simple, and consider weather time is a constant on earth, at least within a margin we are not able to perceive.
And to that question the answer is that yes time is constants, because changes in the speed of time are universal and affect everything equally.
Meaning that the relative time we perceive is constant.BUT on the other hand, time is different to a satellite that orbits the earth, because the faster movement slows down time, but the lower gravity accelerates it. Which makes it necessary for GPS satellites to compensate for that to make accurate positions possible.
Anecdotally the GPS system was originally financed and implemented by the US military. And the generals did not believe this, so they claimed the system to compensate was unnecessary, which of course it turned out the scientists were right, so they had implemented the system to compensate anyway, and could turn it on, when they had proved to the generals that it indeed was necessary.https://www.gpsworld.com/inside-the-box-gps-and-relativity/
The net effect: A GPS satellite clock will gain about 38 microseconds per day over a clock at rest at mean sea level.
This just made me think of something… Have we ever proven through measurement the speed of light is constant? For example every test I can seem to find requires measuring it both ways. How do we know it’s not faster in one direction? Wouldn’t we still get the same measurement if we can only measure that way?
The limit of speed of light is a property of space-time, not a property of light.
Another way to understand it is that it is the maximum speed of causality. The limit doesn’t go only for light, but for instance also for gravity, which AFAIK is also proven by the measurement of gravitational waves.
The reason only light can achieve this speed is that it is massless. Because if light had mass, it would have infinite energy, and take infinite energy to achieve the speed of light.
There are numerous explanations for how 2 objects moving at the speed of light still only approach each other at the speed of light.
Take a look at Youtube, there are many good videos explaining relativity in general and speed of light in particular.
Once you hit a certain age, every week goes by faster than the previous one.
I think that happens at every age. Every new day is a smaller fraction of your life then the previous day.
I found that one second in my head is almost twice as fast as 1 second to everyone else is. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD.
Howevs I don’t think 1 second is like, the baseline of human processing though. It’s an arbitrary number which is a 60th of a 60th of a 12th of daylight time in Mesopotamia.
Fun fact: In ancient greece (and presumably elsewhere, maybe as early as babylon) days were considered to genuinely change length throughout the seasons. Many clocks around the world cknvey this, inckuding Prague’s Astronomical clock
If only was some other, more reliable way of measuring time.
Ok, so it turns out that there are stupid questions
