How long is a minute? Based upon your class experiment addressing a minute, please comment about any patterns that you see and what you think about why some people believe a minute is longer or shorter than its actuality. Time travel thoughts? Reaction? Explain?
People have different ideas of time just based on personality. Many families see time as a factor but also many families don't let time rule there lives. It just depends on how people see time and how much they let it control them.
ReplyDeleteIn our small group, we called it a minute after about 51 seconds had passed. When we checked in with the rest of the class, nobody had called it a minute AFTER the 60 second mark, leading us to believe that a minute can be no more than 60 seconds, but CAN be less than 60 seconds depending on the individual being asked.
ReplyDeleteWhen we live our lives we do not have a constant awareness of time. Granted, time keeps us on schedule and gets us to places in an organized manner, but we to not track everything we do by the minute. Minutes appear much shorter than they are because while in the moment time seems to seep away. It also depends on the situation that changes our perception of time, and it can make time seem much faster or slower than what it actually is.
ReplyDeleteA minute is longer when you focus on the seconds you are given at hand then when you are having fun because you don't care about the time which causes it to go by fast in your perspective.most of the class seemed to be lower then a minute in guessing times. This to me seems that we are so used to not keeping track of time we forget how long a minute really is.
ReplyDeleteTime perception usually depends on the situation. Time seems to go by so much slower when people are waiting on time. On the other hand, when time is just a background and not noticed much, it seems to pass by much quicker. It seems that a minute has varying lengths even though a minute has been and always will be just a minute. Time perception might play some role in time travel. Maybe the amount of time that is traveled all depends on the perception of time that has passed.
ReplyDeleteThe more a person thinks about time the slower it goes by, while doing this experiment I realized that a minute is a lot longer than I originally thought. Its amazing to me how many minutes a day I spend wasting my time but they seem to go by faster when your having fun.
ReplyDeleteA minute is the amount of time it takes to finish a small talk conversation. A minute is how long it takes for silence to become awkward. My group members became almost anxious not being able to specifically determine a minute to a few seconds. I believe most people find a minute to be shorter because everything moves faster now that in recent years. Depending on what we are doing, time moves at different speeds in our heads
ReplyDeletea minute is 60 seconds but during this class experiment the brain can't tell what a minute is without a clock or some sort of time telling device. In my group we had someone who was close to the time and someone who was far from the time. I am shocked at how I don't know how long a minute is without my phone or a clock. My entire life I have been basing time on minutes and hours and seconds yet I can't tell how long a minute is without asistance
ReplyDeleteIt honestly depends on what you are doing for that minute because if your just sitting and thinking about how long its gonna take to get to a certain time, its gonna take like every minute feels like an hour but if you want time to go by slowly its probably gonna go by faster because your having fun. I think that the thought of time travel is a completely unbelievable because its impossible to travel into time
ReplyDeleteEveryone has a different outlook on time, and so they see how long or how short a minute are differently. However during the activity, a lot of people were internally counting. But some people have a better grasp on time, because they have everything planned down to a "T." So I feel as though it all depends on how much you allow time to rule your life.
ReplyDeleteTime is not an exact thing. its more of a relativity to our views on how long it takes for time to pass. a minute is just a way to measure time. but depending on who you ask its length differs.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, time is a very weird thing and it makes sense that we can't always tell when a minute has gone by. A minute while sleeping is almost non-existent, but a classroom minute can drag on forever. Hours go by doing things we love to do, but boring things just carry on. However, as we get older, it seems to be easier to keep track of time regularly. Both me and Henry got within 2.5 seconds when guessing when a minute was, but it could be totally different if we tried it again.
ReplyDeleteChase Crawford
In class we timed our version of a min, My group and I were off by 10 sec. It seemed like a really long time but ended up being not enough time. This make me realize that we think we know time, and when you focus on the seconds of a min it seems like forever. But when you aren’t guessing time just fly’s by
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteA minute is 60 seconds or 1/60 of an hour. Based upon your class experiment my minute is 59 seconds. I think everyone's version of a minute is different because how patient everyone is. Sometimes we can overthink time, how much time we have, how much little time we have, etc. time travel would mess the time of the second because of the travel time to go to a different time period. This would mess up all of history's version of a minute.
I think how peoples brains work in processing a minute, is if the brain is side tracked. When you are doing something and have your mind concentrated you tend to not feel as if time is is going at fast pace. One second your doing something then in your mind its been a minute, you look up and it turns out its been 3 minutes.
ReplyDeleteA minute is 60 seconds. I said 'time' at 39 seconds, thinking that a minute is shorter than what it is, but it felt longer than that. I think this is because I was anticipating the minute and wanted to get the exact time, but instead I just rushed it. Time travel is probably something that everybody wants to do, but if you're not careful with it, you could lose track of time and get lost in it. Maybe even loosing yourself in the process.
ReplyDeleteA minute is a minute and when I had tried to see how long one minute was, it was long and I wasn't sure If I had gotten it. I was only a few seconds off. Theres the idea of how long one minute is then theres the idea of what can happen during the one minute. To think that theres 60 of those in one hour... One class. A lot can happen in one minute,
ReplyDeleteBeing absent for the class experiment I tried my own at home. My sister controlled the timer. I said "Time" 2 seconds too early. I think that people underestimate how much they can do in a minute. In the hallways at school I have some friends who tend to freak out during passing periods because they don't think they have enough time to get to class, I am not one of those people. Although I am rarely late to class I usually use my time in the hallways to the best of my ability. Time is a concept of human creation and yet we as humans do not always know or understand time.
ReplyDeleteFor me time is an illusion, it is a made up unit that has controlled peoples lives for centuries. 1 minute is 1 minute no matter the circumstance. However, depending on what you are timing 1 minute can go by quickly or very slow. If you are waiting 1 minute to get out of class, it is going to go by slow, if you are waiting 1 minute to sleep, 1 minute can go by very very fast. As I said earlier, time is an illusion and and an invention made by man. I dont know if time travel is physically possible.
ReplyDeleteMost people that go over the 60 second mark are more lauded back people and aren't "Go, Go, Go" people. People that get under is are the more rushed people. I know I got under the mark every time, but not by much.
ReplyDelete