Listen, It's Easy Podcast: What is social time and why it's constantly accelerating

University College London neuroscientist Beau Lotto spentTime passes more slowly when you see red, experiments show / The Times An experiment that showed that time flows differently in rooms with walls of different colors. The clock, of course, runs the same way, but the subjective sensations of people differ.

The researcher invited the participants of the experiment to two rooms - with blue and red walls. There they had to determine when one minute would pass. They were supposed to just stand in the room and give a sign when the set time, in their opinion, expired.

It turned out that in the blue room, the minute for the subjects lasted 11 seconds less than in the red one. 11 seconds is not really a small thing, it's almost 20% of a minute. So it’s better not to paint the walls of your office in red. Blue is possible.

In general, scientists distinguish not only the astronomical time familiar to us - minutes, hours, days, years. But also

social. We'll talk about him in the final episode of the first season of the podcast "Listen, it's easy."

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