Ever feel like time has sped up? well maybe it has.

[UltraBudgie]

Without going into the science, which I'm sure is fascinating, if time sped up, wouldn't the mechanism of perception speed up also? Meaning, the speedup wouldn't be subjectively observable. Also, how is time appearing to speed up different from perception slowing down? Colloquially, to a turtle the entire world appears to be going in turbo-mode, but it isn't; it just appears that way to the turtle.

[CTFtheory]

Did you know the moderator from ATS and DI, The Redneck?   He was an amazing person and his drawl would lure an unsuspecting person into thinking he perhaps wasn't a deep thinker, but that was an illusion.  

He and I were working on a theory to unify the fundamental physics constants c and G, that is the speed of light, and the effect of gravitational attraction.    We didn't complete it before his death, but I am still working on it.   I owe him at least that.   

One of the side effects of our work in relation to The Speed of Light (in a vacuum) seemed to challenge the Hubble Constant/Hubble's Law, which outlines the velocity of which galaxies and other cosmological entities are expanding away from each other.   I mean, can you imagine the arrogance of two mooks talking over the phone, to even discuss such a thing?   But we did.  

A repercussion of that possibility is that the constant c, the speed of light, might not actually be a "constant", but a gradually increasing quantity that the intensity is so slow as to not be measurable by humans with conventional devices.   Yeah.  It was a thought experiment.  Still, if that were true, our perception of time would speed up.   

Aside:  I believe DTOM called it correctly, as a perception of aging.   It makes the most sense.   Plus, as technology expands and intrudes into our lives, the understanding of time and awareness gets jacked up;  there is no more calm any more, at least in the cities.   Only people living in a sleepy place that enjoy the peace of nature are somewhat immune.   

Still, I am still working on this thang that my brother Redneck and me started.  The math is simplistic and also complex.   I know that doesn't make sense.   It may play into dimensional constants, but the TLDR version is that everything is speeding up, and at some point -- should humanity survive -- we might simply run out of time to perform the very basic duties to keep us alive.  

I hope this that I've written resonates as on-topic.   If not, it wasn't my intention to do otherwise.  

Miss you Redneck.

Tell me how this resonates please. I am looking for anyone to collaborate with because the only smart people I know are AIs.
 Everyone knows the universe is expanding: galaxies fly away from us, and the farther they are, the faster they’re going (Hubble’s Law). The speed/distance ratio is the Hubble constant (H₀)** — right now measured at ~70–74 km/s per megaparsec. But there’s a huge fight because two different methods give two different numbers (the “Hubble tension”).
The Continuous Temporal Funnel fixes it in one sentence:
The universe isn’t expanding into empty space. It’s the funnel itself widening again as λ(t) increases.
Here’s how it works:

• Early universe (narrow funnel, small λ(t)) → time ran slow → everything looked “young” and close together.
  
• As the universe ages, λ(t) slowly increases (funnel widens) → time speeds up → distances appear to grow faster than they “should” under constant time.
  
• That apparent extra growth is exactly what we call cosmic acceleration and dark energy.
  

The Hubble “constant” isn’t constant.
It’s the rate at which the funnel is widening right now.
And it’s been changing the whole time.
That’s why the two big measurements disagree.
They’re measuring the funnel at different widths.
No new physics. No crisis.
Just time doing what it was always allowed to do.
The funnel fixes the Hubble tension without breaking a sweat.
And it does it with one number that was already there.

[argentus]

Without going into the science, which I'm sure is fascinating, if time sped up, wouldn't the mechanism of perception speed up also? Meaning, the speedup wouldn't be subjectively observable. Also, how is time appearing to speed up different from perception slowing down? Colloquially, to a turtle the entire world appears to be going in turbo-mode, but it isn't; it just appears that way to the turtle.

50+ years ago, when I was in high school, I read a book called Supernature.   I was amazed with all of it, but particularly influenced by a passage which urged the reader to imagine the world from a plant's perspective.   We see plants as gentle things that grow and expand and  reach out and reproduce in a very slow manner, but from a plant's perspective, the world might be seen as very violent.   Imagine how plants take over others and squeeze them out for habitat.   If we could see the world from their perspective, we might not even be visible, because we were moving so fast.  

I like your questions, because they make us ponder from different viewpoints, and I always think that is the best of things.  As you said, the turtle views thing from a different speed.    I have become that turtle.  

[CTFtheory]

Without going into the science, which I'm sure is fascinating, if time sped up, wouldn't the mechanism of perception speed up also? Meaning, the speedup wouldn't be subjectively observable. Also, how is time appearing to speed up different from perception slowing down? Colloquially, to a turtle the entire world appears to be going in turbo-mode, but it isn't; it just appears that way to the turtle.

Yes. Its like a fish detecting water with a ruler made of water because the entire mechanism and all atomic clocks would also speed up. But the theory explains a biological decoupling. That would absolutely be testable and predictable.

So it easily debunked .OR NOT

[argentus]

Tell me how this resonates please. I am looking for anyone to collaborate with because the only smart people I know are AIs.
 Everyone knows the universe is expanding: galaxies fly away from us, and the farther they are, the faster they’re going (Hubble’s Law). The speed/distance ratio is the Hubble constant (H₀)** — right now measured at ~70–74 km/s per megaparsec. But there’s a huge fight because two different methods give two different numbers (the “Hubble tension”).
The Continuous Temporal Funnel fixes it in one sentence:
The universe isn’t expanding into empty space. It’s the funnel itself widening again as λ(t) increases.
Here’s how it works:

• Early universe (narrow funnel, small λ(t)) → time ran slow → everything looked “young” and close together.
  
• As the universe ages, λ(t) slowly increases (funnel widens) → time speeds up → distances appear to grow faster than they “should” under constant time.
  
• That apparent extra growth is exactly what we call cosmic acceleration and dark energy.
  

The Hubble “constant” isn’t constant.
It’s the rate at which the funnel is widening right now.
And it’s been changing the whole time.
That’s why the two big measurements disagree.
They’re measuring the funnel at different widths.
No new physics. No crisis.
Just time doing what it was always allowed to do.
The funnel fixes the Hubble tension without breaking a sweat.
And it does it with one number that was already there.

I wish I would have known you before my brain became cloudy.   I follow your thinking precisely, and I feel inspired.   You also dare to challenge the Hubble Constant, and for that I have to give you a fistbump and say "respect".    I  think we will likely talk soon.   I'm not certain I can do you any good, but I will try.   I think it is likely you are well beyond my scribblings.  

[CTFtheory]

I wish I would have known you before my brain became cloudy.   I follow your thinking precisely, and I feel inspired.   You also dare to challenge the Hubble Constant, and for that I have to give you a fistbump and say "respect".    I  think we will likely talk soon.   I'm not certain I can do you any good, but I will try.   I think it is likely you are well beyond my scribblings.  

Once you challenge the time constant it becomes gobbily gook to most serious people anyway.

[argentus]

Once you challenge the time constant it becomes gobbily gook to most serious people anyway.

Not necessarily.   People can participate easily in a meld of philosophy and physics.   If you haven't read The Dancing Wu Li Masters,  I strongly recommend it.   Also Fearful Symmentry   by A. Zee.   Both describe complex phenomena in lay language.    We don't have to convey things in mathematical terms;  we can convey them in relatable terms.

[Hypntick]

I hate to burst your bubble.

The older one gets, the faster time appears to go.
By the time you reach your 60s, time is sometimes moving at a dizzying pace compared to when you were in your preteens.

That's the whole making new memories thing. When we're creating new memories, time appears to slow down for us; we're in an unfamiliar place, maybe with unfamiliar people, doing something totally new. Your brain captures this as a new experience, and since it has no baseline to compare it to, your perception of it slows down. To give an anecdotal example, I just got done with a nine-day stay-cation, sat around the house, did my usual stuff, and had Thanksgiving (which has become routine at this point). Nine days felt like two at the most. Go back to October, when, for our wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to a new city, tried new food, and explored new areas, all over the course of five days. Those five days felt like ten, as I was making new memories, not just the same old same old. My wife's birthday is coming up next weekend, and I tried to talk her into another five-day trip somewhere new, but she wants to spend it at home with our usual celebration. I bet these five days feel like two days max compared to getting away from routine and experiencing something or somewhere new.

[CTFtheory]

Did you know the moderator from ATS and DI, The Redneck?   He was an amazing person and his drawl would lure an unsuspecting person into thinking he perhaps wasn't a deep thinker, but that was an illusion.  

He and I were working on a theory to unify the fundamental physics constants c and G, that is the speed of light, and the effect of gravitational attraction.    We didn't complete it before his death, but I am still working on it.   I owe him at least that.   

One of the side effects of our work in relation to The Speed of Light (in a vacuum) seemed to challenge the Hubble Constant/Hubble's Law, which outlines the velocity of which galaxies and other cosmological entities are expanding away from each other.   I mean, can you imagine the arrogance of two mooks talking over the phone, to even discuss such a thing?   But we did.  

A repercussion of that possibility is that the constant c, the speed of light, might not actually be a "constant", but a gradually increasing quantity that the intensity is so slow as to not be measurable by humans with conventional devices.   Yeah.  It was a thought experiment.  Still, if that were true, our perception of time would speed up.   

Aside:  I believe DTOM called it correctly, as a perception of aging.   It makes the most sense.   Plus, as technology expands and intrudes into our lives, the understanding of time and awareness gets jacked up;  there is no more calm any more, at least in the cities.   Only people living in a sleepy place that enjoy the peace of nature are somewhat immune.   

Still, I am still working on this thang that my brother Redneck and me started.  The math is simplistic and also complex.   I know that doesn't make sense.   It may play into dimensional constants, but the TLDR version is that everything is speeding up, and at some point -- should humanity survive -- we might simply run out of time to perform the very basic duties to keep us alive.  

I hope this that I've written resonates as on-topic.   If not, it wasn't my intention to do otherwise.  

Miss you Redneck.

You might also find this interesting. Again I understand that CTF  is almost certainly wrong. Because Lets face it it would change everything.

We’re all taught that the speed of light in a vacuum (c = 299 792 458 m/s) is the ultimate cosmic speed limit and is perfectly constant everywhere, forever. Under the Continuous Temporal Funnel, c is still exactly the same number — but what a “meter” and a “second” actually mean changes with the funnel.
Here’s the trick:
In CTF, both space and time are scaled by the same factor λ(t):

• When λ(t) is small (slow-time, wide funnel) → one second feels longer and one meter feels longer
  
• When λ(t) is large (fast-time, narrow funnel) → one second feels shorter and one meter feels shorter
  

Because the meter and the second shrink or stretch together, the ratio (distance ÷ time) — the speed of light — stays exactly c.
The light beam doesn’t go faster or slower in any absolute sense. It just travels the same number of local ruler ticks per local clock tick, even though the ruler and clock themselves are breathing with the funnel.
So:

• Light from a distant galaxy that formed in a slow-λ era took more biological time to reach us, but because our clocks are now in fast-λ, the trip looks “too quick” → early galaxies appear “too mature.”
  
• Light inside your laser pointer today is riding the current fast-λ → it feels perfectly normal at c.
  

The speed of light is still the unchanging law.
We’re just measuring it with a rubber ruler and a stretching clock.
c remains the cosmic speed limit.
The funnel just makes the road longer or shorter depending on when you drive.
No violation of relativity. Just deeper relativity.
Einstein is still smiling. He just didn’t know the ruler could grow

[BeyondKnowledge]

Does not burst my bubble at all Im 55. thats the whole point of the theory. There is 0 science behind you are just getting older. Thats the "magic dust " excuse

the reason it appears that way is because it is going faster. or maybe

There is a scientific theory that does explain why the perception of time slows down with age.

Many years ago, I had a book on computer science. One provable fact about memory usage is that how full any storage is determines the access time with the size of the storage totally irrevlant. 

When you go past around 80% of any storage system, the storage and retrieval time starts gowing up drastically. Things are harder to find. Empty space is fragmented. Files must be stored fragmented in many places. All this makes reading and writing information slow down the more full the system is. 

They found this also applies to warehouses. I remember Walmart was part of a study on warehouse storage and retrieval time. Excess capacity was crucial to keeping the speed up and not how big the warehouse actually was. 

Now if you consider the human brain to store information in a finite storage area, the more knowledge one has, the slower it works. This causes the perception of time to be skewed simply because our memory is slower.

This also partly explains why memory gets cloudy with age. Our brains are spending more time storing  and retrieving information than they did when less full. Also how old memories are clearer than new ones. The old ones are stored in fewer, larger, sections than the new ones.