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We’re all travelling at the speed of time

And we can’t slow down.

I like the concept of the speed of time, because in some ways it doesn’t make sense. It’s measuring something in terms of itself. What speed is time travelling at? Is it one hour per hour?

The passing of time is a very human concern, but personally I think that it may be even more concerning if it actually stopped passing!

And there’s always the dilemma that if time slowed down you wouldn’t notice, because you’re completely immersed in it (a bit like being in a train with the windows blacked out so that you can’t see how fast the outside world is passing).

Creatures like birds which tend to move a lot faster than we do sense time passing at a different rate. They look at us and see us lumbering along in a similar way to how we see tortoises moving. Similarly, tortoises see us as zipping around the place at dizzying speed. They probably can’t comprehend of the speed of birds.