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Our bodies are sophisticated watches that seem to get faster with age. The psychologist William James at the turn of the 20th century observed that years seem to pass more rapidly as we grow older. In 1937 French biophysicist Lecomte du Nouy associated this pSpeeding up time in older age
Our bodies are sophisticated watches that seem to get faster with age. The psychologist William James at the turn of the 20th century observed that years seem to pass more rapidly as we grow older. In 1937 French biophysicist Lecomte du Nouy associated this phenomenon of a racing time with the slowing in cellular activity in ageing bodies. He connected time with our physiological processes. To this day, although there is much evidence supporting this theory, the relationship between our physiological processes and our estimate of time remains contested. For example, in 1958, Sanford Goldstone, William Boardman and William Lhamon, with Baylor University Houston, Texas, asked institutional older adults to count 30 seconds at a rate of one count per second. Older adults tended to report a shorter time interval than younger people. But the evidence goes back and forth. In 2005 Marc Wittman and Sandra Lehnhoff, together with the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, supported the widespread belief that the passage of time speeds up with age. They point out that such incremental changes are subtle. The authors also concede that there remain other factors that can speed up time. In an... Read more