> George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
> adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
> Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have
> better, and critically for this issue, faster brains, why does no one
> report that processes seem slower than they did as a child. Admittedly
> size and spatial qualities are more striking, but you would think there
> would be many instances where processes observed in the childhood home
> and not observed in adulthood would seem slower then remembered.
> Someone who spent early years near the ocean and watched the waves and
> lived thenceforward inland. Someone who grew up on a farm and was
> mesmerized by the speed of horses or daddy's tractor, something they
> did...

> Sammybaby wrote:

>> George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
>> adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
>> Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have
>> better, and critically for this issue, faster brains, why does no one
>> report that processes seem slower than they did as a child. Admittedly
>> size and spatial qualities are more striking, but you would think there
>> would be many instances where processes observed in the childhood home
>> and not observed in adulthood would seem slower then remembered.
>> Someone who spent early years near the ocean and watched the waves and
>> lived thenceforward inland. Someone who grew up on a farm and was
>> mesmerized by the speed of horses or daddy's tractor, something they
>> did not observe later in life until returning home. There should be
>> some reports of people being surprised by how slow a certain process
>> seems to them, now as an adult. And yet I have never heard of one.

>
> The ratio of distance to time (L/T) is a constant.
>
> So if distances shrink, then so will duration. ...

> George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
> adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
> Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have
> better, and critically for this issue, faster brains, why does no one
> report that processes seem slower than they did as a child. Admittedly
> size and spatial qualities are more striking, but you would think there
> would be many instances where processes observed in the childhood home
> and not observed in adulthood would seem slower then remembered.
> Someone who spent early years near the ocean and watched the waves and
> lived thenceforward inland. Someone who grew up on a farm and was
> mesmerized by the speed of horses or daddy's tractor, something they
> did...

> This may be a result of how we attend or focus on time as we pass
> critical stages of development whereupon ideas of conservation across
> differing appearance of quantity come in and are imprinted with the
> local and prefered subjective attention to the idea of time passing.

>George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
>adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
>Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have...

> On 24 Oct 2006 05:16:24 -0700, "Sammybaby"
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
>>adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
>>Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have
>>better, and critically for this issue, faster brains, why does no one
>>report that processes seem slower than they did as a child. Admittedly
>>size and spatial qualities are more striking, but you would think there
>>would be many instances where processes observed in the childhood home
>>and not observed in adulthood would seem slower then remembered.
>>Someone who spent early years near the ocean and watched the waves and
>>lived thenceforward inland. Someone who grew up on a farm and was
>>mesmerized by the speed of horses or daddy's tractor, something they
>>did not observe later in life until returning home. There should be
>>some reports of people being surprised by how slow a certain process
>>seems to them, now as an adult. And yet I have never heard of one.

>
> ...

>
>George Hammond wrote:

>> On 24 Oct 2006 05:16:24 -0700, "Sammybaby"
>> yahoo.com> wrote:
>>

>>>George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
>>>adults who return...

> On 24 Oct 2006 05:16:24 -0700, "Sammybaby"
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>George Hammond makes the case that the reason things seem smaller to
>>adults who return to childhood haunts is that they are now bigger.
>>Fair enough. But given the fact that adults, in his theory have
>>better, and critically for this issue, faster brains, why does no one
>>report that processes seem slower than they did as a child. Admittedly
>>size and spatial qualities are more striking, but you would think there
>>would be many instances where processes observed in the childhood home
>>and not observed in adulthood would seem slower then remembered.
>>Someone who spent early years near the ocean and watched the waves and
>>lived thenceforward inland. Someone who grew up on a farm and was
>>mesmerized by the speed of horses or daddy's tractor, something they
>>did not observe later in life until returning home. There should be
>>some reports of people being surprised by how slow a certain process
>>seems to them, now as an adult. And yet I have never heard of one.

>
> ...