{"id":49975,"date":"2023-09-14T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=49975"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:32:34","slug":"time-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/time-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Time From the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"New research shows that our moment-to-moment experience of the passage of time\u2014particularly, what we might call \u201cthe present\u201d\u2014is not constant but stretches or shrinks even within each heartbeat.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's a truism that time feels shrunk or stretched depending on circumstances. \u201cWhen you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it\u2019s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it\u2019s two hours,\u201d said Albert Einstein, rather impishly. We experience that time passes faster the older we get. Research has shown that thoughts and emotions distort our perception of time, too, causing it to fly or crawl. Such outcomes reflect how we typicall<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that our moment-to-moment experience of the passage of time\u2014particularly, what we might call \u201cthe present\u201d\u2014is not constant but stretches or shrinks even within each heartbeat. It&#8217;s a truism that time feels shrunk or stretched depending on circumstances. \u201cWhen you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it\u2019s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it\u2019s two hours,\u201d said Albert Einstein, rather impishly. We experience that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9194,"featured_media":49674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8789],"tags":[11373,8824],"class_list":["post-49975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-research","tag-2023-35-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}