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To: FJB who wrote (491486)	6/18/2012 7:04:17 PM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793913

I can state for a fact that a month these days goes by as fast as 1 week did when I was 20.

To: FJB who wrote (491486)	6/18/2012 8:12:26 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793913

You can measure time against your personal subjective experience (which isn't really relevant, we aren't talking about things like how years seem to go by faster for me now in my 40s then they did when I was a kid), or you can measure time "objectively". That 2nd part is in quotes because time and space measurements are relative. You can have two seconds pass for one observer while one second passes for another (time dilation), but there is no preferred vantage point that is the "real correct time". There is no meta-time to reference time against, so while observer A and observer B can find a different length of time between one event 1 and event 2, you can't really say that time in some absolute sense slows. If your observer B, and time is slower for you than observer A, from your perspective its still one second per second. You don't slow down from your own perspetive, the slow down could only be compared to some other observer, your experience of time would work out fine for you. If the whole universe "slowed down", there would be no outside observer for your time to be slower. The whole universe would still go forward one second per second with no obvious effects. You would only notice time acting weird if different things experienced time differently (to a larger extent than they already do).