#1454 - Time is elastic
In their effort to understand how the brain processes space and time, the team led by Edward and May-Britt Moser discovered that our brain does not have an internal clock ticking, at least not one like your wrist- watch, measuring time in hours and minutes. Instead, we have multiple biological clocks using experiences and memories to track time. Each of these biological clocks uses different time scales and signals, and triggers to do its work. In short, our brain creates a subjective perception of time by organizing into a sequence of discrete memories our continuous flow of experiences. — from Subtraction, The Subtle Art of Unleashing Boundless Innovation
Not only our experience of time is subjective. Time is elastic, as Einstein understood way before we could confirm it with precise measures. As a matter of fact, time slows down the closer we are to the sea level and accelerate the further we go up. The difference is tiny, but it can be and has been measured. Yep, if you spend your life up there on a mountain, you will age faster and have less time to do the things you love.
You may wonder which time is the right one, but I'm afraid to tell you they are all right.
Within you, you know very well that time is subjective. Anytime you realize that hours have gone without noticing and seconds feel infinite.
Yet, we all want to convince ourselves that time is objective. Something absolute that exists on its own in which we all are immersed and to which we are all enslaved.