Can time slow down? This BBC documentary sets out to find out. Time seems to be flying by so quickly that its scary at times... Japanese lesson time. To say "time flies" you say "jikan ga tatsu no ga hayai" [時間が経つのが早い]. jikan [時間] = time ga [が] = particle meaning "is" or "does" tatsu [経つ] = to pass as in a period of time noga [のが] = If I was a teacher then I could explain why this goes here but I cant ^^; hayai [早い] = fast
i wish it was possible 2 slow time down...that way id prob make a deadline 4 work on time (T3T)
i dunno, you'd probably have to work falling down from a skyskraper to do that... -3-
Ahhh, humans, such an amazing subject like time and it's effects and you're thinking about ways to use it to get more money. lol joking.
For noga, can we say that the 'no' makes the sentence before a 'noun' and ga is just a regular 'ga'?
interesting... well, it's true that somehow that time slows down on stressful times while it somehow speeds up during happy/safe times...
Time is passing by to fast, it feels like christmas was 1 month ago, and we are soon in april. Insane. Slowing down time would be cool, if it wouldn't make an slowmotion effect.
Well it has been mathematically proven for a long time now that time is a subjective experience on the relative part of each person. We only have a standard of time just so we can all use a method everyone agrees on to measure time. Time also slows down with larger gravitational effects, though of course, to get anything of the sort you really need to get rather close to a mass large enough in space to experience the effect of time passing by slower relative to someone outside of such a gravity well.
Slowing down time is possible, but you wouldn't notice it really. Everyone does it in their life, except it's so minor that it really doesn't matter (usually you're life is extended by a second or so, hence the "slowing" of time). It concerns relativistic velocity, a concept by Einstein, that says a person traveling at the speed of light will be able to "slow" down time, but really, if you were that person traveling at the speed of light, it would seem as if time was passing by normally. I don't know if anyone's heard the example before, but if two twin brothers were on earth, and one was sent into space orbiting the earth at the speed of light for a couple dozen years (don't remember). On his return, the brother in space may only be a couple years older whereas the one on earth will be much older then the other twin. Anyways, what I don't like about BBC is that they seem to have a lot of hoax or dumb articles. One time I recall their being an article on BBC's site for a story about how one of the Harry Potter characters could have been possibly gay... yes, what a waste of an article. Anyways, its possible, but you can't really demonstrate it.
well it's true, J. K. Rowling revealed herself that Dumbledore was Gay :) --- Maybe some day we'll be able to stop time :D
That's a thought experiment by Einstein. It's to explain the concept of Time Dilation, which I won't define because it's already been said above. There's an equation for calculating Time Dilation, but I don't feel like whipping out my physics notes right now :p
Yes that is relativity as explained by Einstein (by the both of you), which was what I tried to put in layman's terms just as food for thought. Though the part about minuscule time dilation was interesting, I am generally talking about the ones that are pretty much relative for both the observer undergoing the normal time continuum and the one outside that seems to see the first one slow down relative to himself. Sorry just finished a book on black holes, but I never did find myself mathematically inclined enough to go into astrophysics.
I wish we have an engine that can boost a vehicle speed to above the speed of light, then we can slow time down or perhaps travel back in time. >_<
why i love physics...i could go on and on for 2 hours.
Yeah, especially since Gurren Lagann has many Physics in it. Schrodinger cannon, time-space continuum, yada yada. ^^
it's amazing they can breathe in space too.
I guess Gunbuster would be a nice example for slowing down time in space, 12000 years are a bit extreme though ^^"
I wonder why so many people thinks that. Time is not passing so quickly, instead it goes painfully slow.
I too, think that slowing down time is impossible, its like finding a cure for ummm something...
Poor rats on cocaine and marijuana. I hope thay get their pelets later. T__T
Seconded
Interesting... I wish time could slow down, coz' I need extra time to work on my homework!!
Same here... Tons of homework to do and it's my last year of high school (gotten worse throughout the years)
doing homework while falling down from a 300 meter building... id rather say my dog ate it.
lol i agree with you dude. its better then getting black outs or end up puking when you arrive on the ground safely
Atmosphere and surroundings can definitely affect time, no doubt >_<
I wish I can slow down time too.. Looking at the so many releases of animes, I need the time to catch all of them..
So you don't slow the atmosphere, but you speed up your brain so the atmosphere feels slow... Damn, those actors with matrix scenes must take a ton of cocain to do that,and act cool at the same time! Cocain and Marijuana combo!?
lol rats on drugs, hectic. +1
well really interesting but ....i don't really think time can slow down
It's funny how people automatically go into light and time theory when you talk about this kind of stuff. The first part is just a simple trick of the brain, not light or time. The human brain see things at about 30 frames per second, hence the reason some video games have frame limiters set at 30fps and why most tv shows and movies are set at 29.9fps. Anything below that seems jumpy, anything above that seems smooth. When given a life/death situation, the brain speeds up it's processing to higher than 30fps, thus enabling a person to see the numbers the use to be a blur.
interesting... so slowing down time is a state of mind and not some kind of physical device...
Well, time isn't physical to begin with; it's a measurement. Think of it this way: a 200x200km area of land would be gigantic if you stand in the middle, but if you look at it from orbit the size will be tiny. There's no "physical device" changing the size of the 200x200km square, you're just changing your position. (Of course, I'm assuming this works for time, since I haven't really gotten into the subject)
hate it when time flies =_= too many things need to finish (argh!)
I wish time could slow down.....need to chase the final project to graduate this time but had to go for an internship in SG ^^;;;;;
I would slow down time to watch anime in chains...and if time would stop I would *beep*.......
To the epoch!
e jikan ga tatsu no ga hayai desu nee
Humans have found another way to defy nature. Well, I just hope nothing catastrophic would come out of that... My life, I wouldn't mind if there was a slow, pause or fast forward button, as I have yet to find a true meaning for it (my life project/career is going underway though). A rewind button would have been nice though.
Interesting idea... Part of the concept that everything is relative, because in the end, we all perceive things as our brain "translates" them. Best thing to see this for yourself is skydiving. Seems like it takes a long time, but when you ask people who where watching, they'll say it took only few seconds.
can't watch the video for some reason. But I think it's possible in theory.
Time is a relative thing, you'd almost have to find a way to slow the whole world down or whatnot. Time is infinitely flowing and governs everything in the universe, you'd have to find a way to halt the flow of physics itself, localization of the phenomenon in a vacuum or something might be possible, but universally like The Matrix or something.... hmm.... I think it'd be better to try and speed yourself up or something ^^; のが in that sentence seems to indicate "the way" of something, almost like an adverb. The way that らしい is a suffix that makes a word adjectival, (or てく) that'd be my guess. I have my Intermediate Japanese Grammar dictionary around here somewhere, I'm just far too lazy to look for it....
You can slow down time by having much less to do everyday. You can also travel back through time through your memories.
Time...that's something I think man could never really get a hold of for hundreds of years to come. Maybe unless we get to use the full capacity of our brains to understand as complex as time then I think that would be a possibility. :D
How convinience it is to slow down time. Hhh....time sure go by quickly for me. Wish I had more time to do some more otaku stuff....
its pretty interesting but its just mean either : a) the human mind can be pressure and forces it to push to the real human potential when its cornered b) time distorts as another force distrupts it my guesses~
Can time slow down? The short answer is no because time is constant. While it's possible to experience same event at a different speed. It does not mean time has slowed down or sped up. Take a drag race for example; the start to finish of the race. The drivers and spectators experience those fews seconds differently. Although, you could alter the rules to time but doing so would push the conversation into time traveling.
Only use I can find for slowing time down is to watch more anime ^_^'''
even if you CAN change time, what's the point? it probably better to keep the past as it is. If someone invents a time machine, it's obvious some people might use it for evil. If THAT happens, Sadam Hussain might be having World war 3 by now.
Hmmm, just finished watching the video and I got really mixed feelings about this. Two consecutive free falls? When I thought bungee jumping was scary enough, LOL!! The guy must have been paid well, truly needed adrenaline or fame or made a silly bet. Well, for the rats, being drugged is not really funny, as it is not only time, but the overall perceptions that are distorted. Anyway, they try to be cool in the video, but they are stating the obvious: Since we are trapped in our bodies (I have no wish for an ethereal existence though), there are perceptions that remains highly personal/subjective (and cannot be accurately between people) such as pain, pleasure, love and hatred, but also the sense of time.
