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Have you ever been in an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation and noticed how time seems to slow down? Everything from being in a fight to being in a car crash can cause this feeling. But is it really time dilation?
Have you ever been in an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation and noticed how time seems to slow down? Everything from being in a fight to being in a car crash can cause this feeling. But is it really time dilation?
Dr. David Eagleman tackled this question by giving his test subjects a chronometer that was going too fast for the human eye to read under normal circumstances. If time really slows down when you're afraid, then surely the subjects would be able to read the chronometer when they fell 150 feet in the test, right?
Wrong.
Read about the experiment's results, its implications, and how we can use this as a science fiction story idea on my blog at the link below!
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