# It's spring already? Physics explains why time flies as we age

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**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/its-spring-already-physics-explains-why-time-flies-as-we-age/2059 "2019-03-20T17:20:24Z")\
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> **[It's spring already? Physics explains why time flies as we age: A slowdown in...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320120547.htm)**
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> Researchers have a new explanation for why those endless days of childhood seemed to last so much longer than they do now -- physics. According to the theory, the apparent temporal discrepancy can be blamed on the ever-slowing speed at which images...

  
Researchers have a new explanation for why those endless days of childhood seemed to last so much longer than they do now – physics. According to the theory, the apparent temporal discrepancy can be blamed on the ever-slowing speed at which images are obtained and processed by the human brain as the body ages.