Pod Cast Response Questions

Try to in your own words explain why time is not really universal. You may have to listen to it more than once to describe this.

Time is not universal because its up for anybody's interpretation. You can measure time though the aging of your own child, the stretching or speeding of a piece of music, personal time, bedtime, time to do a certain event, noon, 9:57, 13:50, 33 min past the hour, sunset, is there a way to measure a time? time to be somewhere? time to eat? time to say goodbye? in my opinion i agree with the idea that everything is a clock. Everything eventually ages, weather it be a person, a pet, a tree, a flower etc. Some things age faster than others, regardless by looking at the aging of things around you, you therefore realize that time is passing by and that you are aging as well. Time is change.

After listening to “A Short History of Time” consider how being in the zone impacts our senses of duration and tempo. In other words, what happens to the length of a moment, and the speed of time in your mind and body when you are at a state of peak performance?

when in a state of peak performance a persons sense of time goes slower. It feels slower because of the rush of adrenaline and how absolutely focused you are. Its a peaceful, powerful moment were time is thick.


Beyond the purposeful inducement of a state of flow by athletes, musicians, artists, and religious practices, what other means, or reasons, are mentioned in “The Short History of Time” that could change our perceptions and experiences of time? Name at least two very different ways for changing our relationship to time.


Two different ways for changing our relationship of time are :
1. loosing track of time through prayer and meditation
2.Love

* the moment meets the eternal

Russolo and his colleagues embraced mechanical rhythms and noises. They celebrated not attunement with another human in the present moment, but the future. They were the products of the first mechanized World War, and were terribly disillusioned with Romantic ideals. How has this attitude played itself out our century? Can you think of art forms or media that celebrate the same things Russolo valued?

Russolo was a futurist who celebrated the ideas of getting rid of the old, speed, military, technology and doing things that were against the norm. Today, i think that futuristic ideals are best represented through teenagers in highschool and college. Teens today are in love with technology, think they are invincible, go against the norms of society, and are constantly looking for new and fresh things to do.