The Rate of Aging[1]
Okay, you "metaphysicists", here's an article that should get your juices flowing. The Wall Street Journal recently reported research that showed some people appear to age much more slowly than others.
Okay, you "metaphysicists", here's an article that should get your juices flowing. The Wall Street Journal recently reported research that showed some people appear to age much more slowly than others.
What is happening here? Is chronological time passing at a different rate for study participants?
If so, does this suggest that individual differences in the rates at which time passes may be more common and much greater than we have thought? We know, for example that people living at different altitudes move through time at measurably different rates as do people traveling in an airplane and stationary people on the ground. But these are minute differences that can only be detected with atomic clocks.
Are there causes for differences that we did not previously suspect?
What evidence is there to support or refute your answers?
Notes
1. See pages 79-83 of Donald W. Jarrell, At the Edge of Time: Reality, Time, and Meaning in a Virtual Everyday World (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012, 2014.) See At the Edge of Time
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If so, does this suggest that individual differences in the rates at which time passes may be more common and much greater than we have thought? We know, for example that people living at different altitudes move through time at measurably different rates as do people traveling in an airplane and stationary people on the ground. But these are minute differences that can only be detected with atomic clocks.
Are there causes for differences that we did not previously suspect?
What evidence is there to support or refute your answers?
Notes
1. See pages 79-83 of Donald W. Jarrell, At the Edge of Time: Reality, Time, and Meaning in a Virtual Everyday World (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012, 2014.) See At the Edge of Time
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