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Depending on our age, we have different perceptions of time. For a child a month seems like a year, and for an older person a year seems like a month.

Here is my perception.

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. In my mind it is just a baby. It will probably suffer heat death in 10 billion^3 years, so there's plenty of time left. Like I said: A baby.

Earth is roughly 1/3 of that age: 4.5 billion. And, since I experience a year like a month, I see the earth as merely 375 million years old.

Staying in those proportions:

- Modern humans came to be 25.000 years ago.
- Civilisation started 500 years ago.
- Medieval times (and the viking age): 83 years ago.
- Science just had its sweet 16th birthday.
- Modern democracy is soon a teenager.
- WW2 was 6.5 years ago.
- Popmusic is in kindergarten.
- The interweb became public domain two years ago
- ...and I will probably die within two years.


What is your perception of time?

Approximation of a unified intradimensional movement that is infinite in nature, with this approximation of this very same unity being a limit as "multiplicity through relation".

A thread from a while back covers some of this and gives an argument for a universal algebraic expression of time:

https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtop ... 26&t=23354

My perceiving time goes like this - Got this work to do and that responsibility and work never ends and where's the fun - always so little, and then the next day again the same story, as TIME goes by.