why does time go so slow?
442369
As the saying goes, the true measure of the passage of time depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
855114
the majority of the lost time is not in the wire it is in the switch so you are going to get it wrong\n\nas for the speed in theory electricity flows at the speed of light but in actual use the resistance of the wire and the circuit slows it down but the speed is so great that unless you are talking milliseconds it is instantaneous
440296
all matter, which moves in time, decreases over time
270366
In a sense, time may be relative to size.  If you look at a time dilation equation, t' = t*(1/(1-(v^2)/(c^2))^(1/2)) you can see that time is related to velocity.  The larger (i.e. more massive) an object it, the more space it displaces and the greater the gavitational (velocity) effect.\n\n---EDIT---\n\nThe more massive an object the greater it's gravitational force.  From experimental fact, the speed of gravity is much faster than light. (Yes, I know, this contradicts Special Relativity, but that's another discussion.)\n\nAdditionally, the mass-square of the electron neutrino, measured from tritium beta decay experiments, has been found to be negative. (Yes, this too contradicts Special Relativity.)\n\nSo, from one extreme to the other, time is only relevent for a object that is moving, not for a stationary object.\n\nThat being said, there is nothing that tells us how time flows for a "moving" observer, only for a "fixed" observer.  Therefore, time must actually a constant.
24024
Space and Earth have little to do with the event.  I assume that you are referring to the problem of the very fast moving space ship relative to the slow moving Earth.  Time aboard the ship would seem to pass as normal.  Time on Earth would seem normal.  Time passage for someone on the ship as seen by someone on Earth would seem to slow down.  The faster relative velocity of the ship the slower time on board the ship would seem to someone still on Earth.
991704
If you could get your atoms to stop moving, then you would be at absolute zero, so you'd be frozen, and not caring much.\n\nHaving said that, no. Why would time stand still? Theoretically, if EVERYTHING were to stand still, then time would have no meaning, since time has no definition apart from measurements of the number of events  in the universe.
147146
My favorite theory is that time is a river.  This takes into account einstiens' equations that have shown time moves at different speeds for different locations (as proven by measuring time in fast moving satellites and comparing it to time on Earth) and yet always moves forward.
23257
Well, when you're having fun, you're not paying attention to the time, you're paying attention to what you're doing. When you're doing something boring (like math class in school for example) you want to get out of there, so everything seems to take longer. \n\n - Luthien
383357
Time's been going just right for me lately...a week feels like a week, and I'm not trying to rush it or slow it down. I'm just enjoying it while it lasts because it won't. Life either goes by too fast or too slow, so when it finally balances out for a quick second, ENJOY IT.
310125
In a very real way it does today.  When my grandparents came to the US it took 2 weeks to cross the ocean.  Now it takes roughly 6 hours.  We can not go forward to backward in time (yet), but we can compress time.  \nLet's say 2 people in 1870 want to go from Europe to the US.  One takes the steamer for 2 weeks.  The other hops in his super secret jet and makes it to the US in 6 hours and invests in stocks in the stock market.  By the time his friend arrives he has made (lost) a bundle.  To his friend on the ship, he has traveled forward in time/space and gotten information that was not possibly available...
728817
Time is relative.  It doesn't really exist.  Time is effected by the speed of motion, and is not an object.
125374
this is a sincere question   that  sure opens  more questions.....including  memory functions....there is much  misuse today  and  much misleading  ...how can i  call it  even  information....but  try  any  mathamatical  formula  with  time  in  it  sit  back  and  ponder  the  various  integrations  that  time  takes part  in.......try  many  formulas......time  may not  be  only a clock....check  into  what  physics  calls  a  half life...but  also  wonder  what  produced that  to  get  it  there.....interesting   spell  time  backwards...you get?.....as far  as  travel....or  what  is  backwards  or  forewards......remember  the  guy  who  jumped  out  of  his  bath  and  ran down  the street   yelling    i have  found  it......thats  what  happens to  most  of  us  ...when  we  reach  a degree  of  exploratory  freedom....good  luck...hope  this  helps
249441
Time now, is a universal thing.  It would be a pain to convert different time measurements.\n\nBack then when clocks and wristwatches weren't invented yet, different civilizations had different ways of telling time because of the lack of world-wide communication like we have now.  With today's technology it is easy to have a universal system for time.
1020619
Did it not take time to go from the catcher to first base.  If so, you were not ahead of time.  You may have been going faster than the person running, but that doesn't make you ahead of time.  Learn relativity for if you were moving at a speed some what close to the speed of light, then time on earth would be moving quite faster than your reference point.
176611
Time standing still at the speed of light is theoretical.  Consider, however, it takes nearly nine minutes for light to travel here from the sun.  Therefore, if something travelling at the speed of light experiences no aging, it's purely relative.
68749
Rabid_Scientist is entirely correct.  Both you and your home see time in the other place as speeding up.  I do have something to add to that though.  If you maintain a constant velocity, it can only be measured relative to some other point of reference, so there is no way to determine which is faster, and consequenty it cannot be determined whose time is actually going faster.  However, if you are accelerating it's a whole different story.  As you speed up to that super fast speed where the time differental starts to be noticable, you will see time on your home planet speed up and they will see your time slow down. (Sorry, I'm not going to try to explain this, I'm not sure I entirely understand it myself).  If you were to go back to your home planet, far more time would have passed for them than for you.  This effect will be greater with greater acceleration and greater speed so in that regard time will pass on your home planet more quickly the faster you go.
833876
It shouldn't take longer than about 15 minutes at a rather slow pace.