If time sped up, could we measure any difference?

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Since time is measured by motion or change (a year is the time it takes for our planet to revolve around the sun or ticks of an atomic clock) if the rate of changes increased could we detect any difference through measurement?

What if we could feel time going faster but had no possible physical proof except a subjective feeling?

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[–]Zapped 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Time will always be relative to space. If time changes. so does the space around it. I think it would "feel" the same.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Time feels like it sped up sometime around 2013-14. The world has also seemed smaller since then.

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's called getting older.

[–]rubberbiscuit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

8 am to 3 pm lasted FOREVER in high school and now it goes by in the blink of an eye.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Our perception of time is adjustable, and is often regarded as having been perceived faster or slower depending on the activities we are experiencing. Noteworthy mentioned are the slowing of time during periods of boredom, and accelerated time when excited. Some substances exaggerate this altered perception such as taking hallucinogenics, or amphetamines. As an adaptive species, I'm inclined to believe that the vast majority would 'adjust' to any background change in our motion in space-time without any notice. Whether we would even be capable of noticing any change in the speed of time beyond our own perception though, I mean maybe, but we might just carry on as normal without any knowledge of the difference.

[–]NuclearBadger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only way we measure time is by picking something we hope is constant and locking it to that instead.

If the thing you lock it to starts to change in it's environment then you're shit outa luck.

[–]Riva 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Time is measured by the time it takes the sun to travel across the realm.

[–]yelgy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

measurements aren't even real nibba