Heartbeat may shape our perception of time, study shows: It is a truism that time seems to expand or contract depending on our circumstances: In a state of terror, seconds can stretch. A day spent in solitude can drag. When we’re trying to meet a deadline, hours race by. A study published this month in the journal Psychophysiology by psychologists at Cornell University found that, when observed at the level of microseconds, some of these distortions could be driven by heartbeats, whose length is variable from moment to moment. Psychologists fitted undergraduates with electrocardiograms to measure the length of each heartbeat precisely, and then asked them to estimate the length of brief audio tones. The psychologists discovered that after a longer heartbeat interval, subjects tended to perceive the tone as longer; shorter intervals led subjects to assess the tone as shorter. Interest in the perception of time has exploded since the COVID-19 pandemic, when activity outside the home came to an abrupt halt for many and people worldwide found themselves facing stretches of undifferentiated time. A study of time perception conducted during the first year of the lockdown in Britain found that 80% of participants reported distortions in time, in different directions. On average, older, more socially isolated people reported that time slowed, and younger, more active people reported that it sped up. The new Cornell study addresses something different: how we perceive the passage of microseconds. Understanding those mechanisms may help us to manage trauma, in which instantaneous experiences are remembered as drawn out, Ogden said. When trying to assess the importance of an experience, she said, “our brain just looks back and says, Well, how many memories did we make?” She added, “When you have this really rich memory, richer than you would normally get in a 15-minute period of your life, that’s going to trick you into thinking that it was long.” Adam K. Anderson, a professor of psychology at Cornell and a co-author of the new study said, “Time is a resource." “If the body was a battery, or a gas tank, it’s trying in the moment to say, How much energy do we have? We’re going to make things seem shorter or longer in terms of time based on how much bodily energy we have.” A day spent in solitude can drag. Must have been an extrovert who wrote this! 😁 Indeed, what's wrong with a little peace and quiet? One thing I thought of was "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours." Ah! The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald! Japan's first piloted flying taxi test held ahead of 2025 Expo: An air taxi service set to feature at the 2025 Osaka Expo was tested in a park in the city on Tuesday, in what the prefectural government says is the first time in the country one of the craft has been piloted from the cockpit. Japan plans for the “flying cars” to be among the expo’s main attractions, with the vehicles expected to provide access to the event venue planned to be set up on an artificial island in Osaka Bay. The test in Osaka Castle Park centered on services to be provided by trading firm Marubeni, one of the five companies selected to operate the flying taxis. It used a U.S.-made, single-seater craft different from the vehicles expected to be deployed for the 184-day event in 2025. In the test, the craft ascended straight up into the air, lifted by its multiple propellers about 10 seconds after activation. While hovering about eight meters above ground, it moved backward, forward, left and right and spun around multiple times before landing. Kumagai, who underwent training in the United States for the flight, said afterward that it had felt “like using a games console.” “I think the issue now isn’t the technology, but that the big challenges ahead are Japanese regulations and residents’ feelings” about safety. . . . the prefectural government is working to reduce noise pollution. Never thought I would still be here to see this long anticipated “dream”. Sounds like something from Epcot and the imagination ride. Can you imagine the taxi road rage … or should I say sky rage and having the taxi crash down from the air? :wacko: I wouldn’t mind in the millennium kingdom as a way of traveling since it will be peaceful and nobody will be suddenly passing out from being vaxx. Somebody has been watching too many Jetsons cartoons. A watcher brought up this comment on a youtube … Do you know how we’re told in Revelation 6:5 (the third seal) “a quart of wheat for a denarius”? That’s actual coinage. Is it possible that the Lord holds back digital currency until after the rapture? Just a thought. What do you think… - Fair Use - I’m curious to know your thoughts? I also wonder what a Denarius was worth back in John’s time when he saw the future events? I did a web search: "So, could one fairly say as a ballpark figure: "A denarius was worth a day's pay for a skilled laborer." "That would be roughly equivalent to a $50 bill." (Nov 1, 2007) Forum Ancient Coins I saw an article that said FedNow, the US digital currency will come out in July. Plenty of high watch dates between now and then.
