How to accelerate time… or at least the perception of it

http://trueslant.com/fpaulwilson/2009/08/18/how-to-accelerate-time/

by noheartanthony • 17 years ago

10 5 17 years ago

stepherm• 17 years ago

Why would I want to accelerate time? If anything, I feel like there is never enough time and would want to slow it down.

dazmax• 17 years ago

The article describes how to slow it down, too.

jockc• 17 years ago

You could be riding on a plane, for example.

gnosis• 17 years ago

Does anyone have a working link to the second (prismatic lens) study?

Going by the description of the experiment on the New Scientist blog, it's not clear whether there was a control group. Also, it seems the experiment wasn't double-blind either. Nor does it say how many subjects were in the experiment, or whether a 113 millisecond difference in performance was statistically significant.

Also, I'm not quite convinced this has anything to do with time perception. It could just be that this kind of image processing or these kinds of hand-eye coordination tasks are more easily done when the visual stimulus is seen shifted to the left as opposed the right. But these possibilities are not even mentioned in the blog article.

Hopefully the actual research paper is more forthcoming.

anigbrowl• 17 years ago

NS article: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/...

Originating site doesn't like Chrome and won't give me a cookie. Faugh.

How to accelerate time… or at least the perception of it

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