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   Linguist said, 9 months ago

   Tempus fugit and non comebackibus.
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   Radish said, 9 months ago

   As the universe is expanding faster, is time speeding up?
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   dedi said, 9 months ago

   This week’s strip felt longer than usual.
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   masterskrain said, 9 months ago

   “Time is an Illusion, Lunchtime Doubly So!”
   Ford Prefect.
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   QuiteDragon said, 9 months ago

   @Radish

   Probably not. Things in the universe are not moving faster (what would happen if time would slow down – the reverse of your speculation), but, rather, space is expanding.
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   Fourcrows said, 9 months ago

   @Radish

   As we get older, each year is a smaller percentage of our overall lifetime. At six, a year is one sixth, at forty it is one fortieth. So each year (or summer) feels shorter than the last.
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   garyhbrown said, 9 months ago

   Oh lord, now I’m going to be getting emails from my TP friends saying the scientist are blaming big business for shorter summers….
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   icky mung-mung said, 9 months ago

   Now, now, we call them “Little Days.” And it’s not polite to stare at them.
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   fritzoid said, 9 months ago

   Mathematicians have proven that only at age 22 does a year actually feel like a year.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 9 months ago

    @Radish

    for one thing we are locked into the time stream so any “speeding” up or “slowing down” we would be unaware of it happening. We don’t have that kind of time sense. The Universe is expanding.
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    Radish said, 9 months ago

    And yet, subjectively, time seems to be speeding out of control. Years took forever as a child, now the months fly by.
    .
    The discovery that the universe is expanding at an increasing pace with each passing moment has earned a trio of astronomers the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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    http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1004/Discovery-that-universe-is-expanding-faster-and-faster-earns-physics-Nobel
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    Radish said, 9 months ago

    @Radish

    So I have to go back to my original question. As the universe expands faster, does ‘time’ speed up?
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    notsooldguy said, 9 months ago

    Another immutable law of the universe: the older you get, the faster time goes.
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    masterskrain said, 9 months ago

    @notsooldguy

    Is that anything like "The Hurrier I Go, The Behinder I Get?!
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    Eryx said, 9 months ago

    This summer was the fastest summer ever.
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