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Most people just assume that each day is basically the same length. Like this:
We have clocks and we slavishly believe what they tell us. But in fact, the clocks are also victims of this phenomenon and so are unreliable. Always trust your instincts - you know that the days are not the same length. I recently discovered this when my Meals on Wheels route was changed from Wednesday to Friday. When my route was on Wednesday, it felt like Wednesday came around about every 4 days, but since it has moved to Friday, it seems like two weeks have passed.~
The oddest thing about this is that unlike the normal Monday through Friday worker, I am not craving for Friday to hurry up and get here, so you'd think it would seem to come around more quickly for me and yet it does not. This proves that it is not a matter of desire/relativity. Not for one person, anyway.
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After much study, I have found that these are the actual length of days in relation to each other:
So yes, if you always thought the weekends went by too quickly, you were correct as they are the shortest days. And I can explain it. Einstein, in his Theory of Relativity explained that when an object is moving at a speed approaching the speed of light, time slows down. Every Monday morning millions of people start wishing that Friday will get here. A thought is an electrical charge which is a wave and this wave moving so quickly amongst millions of people begins to approach the speed of light therefore causing time to slow down. This thought continues moving at this great speed until Thursday morning. It then loses momentum and time begins to speed back up. By Friday morning, the thought has waned to such a fraction of its original force that time speeds up more rapidly, making Saturday and Sunday the shortest days of the week. Here are the week lengths in relation to each other:
That's how the Friday Phenomenon works. So quit thinking about it.
7 comments:
This is brilliant. I'm going to post this in my office
So that's how it works!!!!
And I thought 42 was the answer. Thanks for shedding some light on this.
This caused intense concentration on my part. Thanks for making me use the grey mass in my head.
ok. I think I get it.
Aha! I've suspected you as being a secret mad scientist all along!
This is my favorite quote from Einstein on his "Theory of Relativity":
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity."
and then you stick a holiday into the week and it all goes haywire.
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