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harmonywho
· 9 years ago
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This is such a pet peeve for me! No, time does NOT pass differently for them. The seven years is proportional to how they age. They age seven times as fast as humans.
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guest
· 9 years ago
Time passes differently for everyone. A minute in my head is not a minute in your head. Time as most people think of it is a construct invented for industrial flow.
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harmonywho
· 9 years ago
I think you're confusing perception of time and time itself. Each second is exactly the same as the next. It doesn't magically change and warp according to each person. It is a constant. If it weren't, then matter would be as topsy turvy. Because of spacetime. The only thing that changes spacetime is a black hole. And anyways, a dog PHYSICALLY changes and ages much more quickly than a human PHYSICALLY changes and ages. The proportion has been figured out to be about seven years for a dog to one year for a human. People have misinterpreted that very badly. A year on earth is one revolution around the sun. It has been figured out how much time that takes in the set, literal time. Not perception of time, that would be silly.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
Ever heard of relativity?...
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guest
· 9 years ago
Exactly. Sit with a beautiful woman for only a minute and it goes by very fast, put your hand over a flame for a minute and it will seem much much longer. That is relativity.
link9090
· 9 years ago
Actually, dogs age at the exact same rate humans do, they just have a shorter life span...
deleted
· 9 years ago
Uh..... What do you define as aging then?
guest
· 9 years ago
It's always been a mystery to me. A dog that is say 15 years old, is still physically the same age as a 15 year old- they could have been born at the very same moment in time, and have both lived the same amount of years, hours and seconds- yet the dog's body and minds are that of a very elderly person despite it being the same age as somebody we would consider in the early stages of their lifespan. It's strange really- I guess we'll never know how they view time compared to us.
link9090
· 9 years ago
It depends on what question you're asking, whether it's if the dog ages faster or if it views time differently, but I believe they view time in the same way we humans do. Maybe dogs are so happy all the time because they know they don't have as long of a life to live so they just try to live a happy life. But that all seems far fetched to me. A dog just has a shorter lifespan than a human, period.
