Time speeds up as we age.
When you were a kid you probably felt like Summer Vacation lasted an entire year when in reality it lasted only a couple of weeks. Don’t worry, you aren’t alone in this belief! As it turns out time speeds up as we grow older because our perspective changes thanks to a variety of reasons. Time seems slower when we are younger because there is much less of our life to compare against. Two months to a ten year old is a large percentage of their life. Two months to a thirty year old is a tiny percentage, barely worth recognizing. We also run out of new experiences to partake in as we age, thus creating a more subdued understanding of time as it passes us by.
Time speeds up as we age
A small zircon is the oldest object on Earth.
Time gets really trippy when you start to consider the age of materials that have been floating throughout the universe. As we are a part of the universe those materials tend to hit our planet and end up in our backyard, on occasion. The oldest object on Earth, that we know about, is a tiny piece of zircon that was located and excavated in Western Australia from the Jack Hills. The zircon is estimated to be 4.4 billion years old. That number is even more impressive when you consider that it is younger than the Earth by only 160 million years. One day we assume we will find something on the planet that is older than the planet. Yet we have not done so yet.
A small zircon is the oldest object on Earth
