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RE: Defining time with atomic fountains
A not so scientific subject which I find fascinating is our own perception of time.
I could swear that seconds were elapsing much slower when I was a kid. 😀
But of course that's a hard one to prove...
I remember a program on TV about this subject.
People where put in successive rooms lit with a different colour and asked to press a button when they thought a minute had elapsed.
The results where widely different from room to room but what is interesting is that most people would underestimate or overestimate the time based on the colour. the direction of the error was consistent across the volunteers which indicates that some external factors affect consistently our perception of time
I think that this is the case for many many people. However, you rather need a neuropsychologist here instead of a physicist.
This is a funny correlation! Having the opinion of a neuropsychologist may be interested to head. Tagging @abigail-dantes just in case she would have some information here,
I "heard" my name and here I am with a cup of tea :P
Hey @irelandscape, nice to meet you! Your comment is very interesting indeed. I read about such experiments before. However, all I know about the influence different colours have on the distorted perception of time is that it results from the kind of emotions (extent of arousal) the given colour prompts. It all begins with the activation of photo-receptors (cones and rods), but this is just as far as I remember! From here, I would have to brush things up to provide more info :P
You guys have a nice day! :*
Hi, yes your explanation rings a bell.
I think I saw this in a BBC program. Might have been horizon but I'm not sure.
I always thought our perception of time should be on the same footing as our 5 other senses.
I'm not sure how understood our internal clock is.
When I wake up in the middle of the night I like guessing what the the time is.
Surprisingly my guess is usually not too far off, often within 20 minutes accuracy.
Weird.