In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived. A year for a ten-year-old is one-tenth of everything they know. The same year for a forty-year-old is one-fortieth. The math is simple. Each year is a smaller fraction of the whole […]
In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived. A year for a ten-year-old is one-tenth of everything they know. The same year for a forty-year-old is one-fo... [3661 chars]