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Would you care to listen to some of my ramblings about how perception of tme could affect life spans?

Asked by XOIIO (18328points) November 17th, 2010

Bear with me, this was rough to put together. I’ve had this concept for a long time, and was finally able to put it into words.

The basic idea it tha the way a life for percieves time is based on it’s size.
An elephant is much larger than a human being, and it lives much longer too. Dogs/cats
are smaller than human beings, so they have a shorter life span. Basically, since the elephant is larger
it’s perception of time would be slower than ours, stretching out it’s lifetime, while animals that are
smaller than us persieve time much faster than we do, they would go through their life span faster. They
would also see the world in a faster way, such as a high speed camera does, and that would
explain how they are able to catch sticks/ balls/ mice a lot easilly, and rarely miss, because since
their perception of time is faster, they would see everything more slowly than we do. This would mean
large animals like elephants would see us moving coniderably faster than we are, because their perception
of time is slower than ours.

The basic idea (as plain as I can lay it down and explain it) IT that the larger an animal, the slower
their perception of time, and vice versa. Since their perception of time is slower (or faster) their life
span is expanded or shortened compared to ours. (Of course this assumes that humans have the basic lifeline,
what we would use in the way we have 0 on a thermometer, and life sans would be higher or lower than ours.
Perhaps the life span of a fly or a single cell would be a baseline. This would need a system to judge life
spans on which would perhaps require a point of view from a being of the 4th dimension, or on a higher plane of existence.)

This is all just rambling off course, the jumbled up thoughts that I have when I drift off in class.

Let me know what you think/ if you understand what I am saying.

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