There have been some recent (in the past few years) experiments on whether time really is slowed down when you're in a crisis situation. In one experiment, psychologists tested people's perception of how long it took for them to drop several hundred feet at one of the rides in an amusement park. Businesses like Disney are also particularly interested in the apparent speed of time while you're waiting in line (!). So while physicists aren't particularly interested, psychologists are very interested. At 10:34 PM 1/16/2014, Dan Asimov wrote:
Speaking of off-topic stuff:
Does anyone have an explanation for the common experience of the "moving now", aka the "flow of time" ?
If so, I'd like to know what it is. Mainstream physics never even mentions the concept.