Why Time Speeds Up as You Get Older (Where Did the Years Go?) | The Awakened Scientist Ep. 8

You're quite sure it was January only a few months ago. Every day still takes exactly as long as it always did. And yet the years seem to pass faster and faster. Why does time speed up as we get older? In this episode of The Awakened Scientist, Dr Perminder Dhanjal looks at the difference between time as it is lived and time as it is remembered. An experiment that dropped volunteers thirty-one metres into a net helps explain why the years can feel so short, and we ask honestly where science stops. Perhaps the question isn't where the years went, but how much of them left a mark. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - A Familiar Moment 2:12 - The First Twist 3:12 - An Example From My Own Life 3:58 - Where Science Helps 8:12 - Where Science Stops 8:45 - The Second Twist 9:17 - The Hidden Thread 9:45 - Closing