Time can be different and move at different speeds …
Sometimes we hear stories of people who are caught in a life-threatening or terrible situation. And these people swear that time slows down in such situations. This slowdown is often felt during events that defy explanation or events that happened suddenly. This is a common phenomenon, and it has already become the subject of a lot of discussions about what we actually experience. British scientists have empirically confirmed: such an effect really exists!
British researchers decided to find out what would happen if time did slow down. For example, we could get a better look at many things because our brains have a bad habit of mixing similar stimuli into one common event if the interval between stimuli is less than 80 milliseconds. The following experiment was carried out.
The subjects were asked to look at numbers that blinked and constantly changed. So scientists wanted to determine the point at which the brain stops paying attention to time and a person begins to distinguish between different series of numbers.
Initially, the experiment was conducted under normal conditions, and then decided to repeat it under extreme conditions: the participants were asked to look at a series of flashing numbers, falling from a tower 46 m high. Then they were asked to watch other people fall from the same tower, and to estimate how long these the falls were compared to their fall.
The subjects' own fall seemed 36% longer. In addition, in extreme situations, people are better able to identify the flashing numbers. And all this suggests that it is not some moment in time that slows down for us, but that our memory of this moment slows down.
And while the practical benefits of the effect of time dilation may be surprising, we should not forget that the same effect may well make the terrible events in our memory last forever …
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