A short History of time

“A Short History of Time” at:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/07/15
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.

From the audio, I do not think Time is universal because There are a lot of people who are living independently, but i am not saying thay all the people are selfish. I mean people have their own lives. For examples, People usually take care of themselves when they have problems. Nobody will help them before they ask for help, so they should spend time to solve the problem individually. When people take tests, nobody can help them. They should spend time to answer all the questions individually.
From the examples, i just want you to understand that people live for themselve not for other peopl,so sometimes, they should stay alone and spend time indepently. Because of this fact, I think time is not universal.

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?

From the audio, i could know that how being in the zone really impacts our senses of duration and tempo.
When people are performing their the highest peak and important performance, the length of time will be longer and their bodies will move slower than usual.
According to the audio and scientific fact, the person proved that even though people have same common senses, but they feel in different ways. People feel so diffently at same thing. The following sentence really helped me understand theme of the audio. "we are all living different time capsules,”he says, Here is a great example which explain the sentence in detail. when people are running and working very fast, they feel they are fast, and they think they are fast worker and runner, but even though they are going faster, viewers will think runners and workers are not that mouch fast. They look a lot slower then they feel to viewers.



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.
There are two very different ways for changing our relationship to time. Two of them are known as take time and personal time.
When people scheduled appointments, events and celebrations, they arrange time to do these activities. From some of these events, people will feel that time goes slowly, but people feel that time goes by faster when they do funny things and enjoy their tasks. The time when people feel this kind feeling is known as take time.
Personal time is more about personal. For example, when they enjoy their birthday parties, they will feel some special things. when a mother holds their child, the mother feel that the time is so special. The mother might feel that one moment time does not move. After the activity, that moment of time possiblely becomes a great memory which the mother will not forget forever.


Given that empathy from person to person is based upon synchronicity, including our unconscious ability to sense and attune ourselves another’s rhythms, such as breath, what are the implications of living according to GMT? What are the pros and cons?

Con:London owns “real time” and everything relate with and work by “me.”

Pro:people have the power to control this entire moment. Can control time, if people want to do something, they have the ability to do.

I will live in the GMT time zone because the hours start at zero. I feel i can get a perfect schedule which is made by me in that zone. I really want to feel and experience the time zone.

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?

I think Russolo's attitude is not common in nowadays. People who live in the world are very friendly with songs that are rhythmic. rhyme and movies are related to each other so strongly If movies and songs match with each other so well, people will remember the time forever. I do not agree that people want to hear the random sounds becaouse when people feel happy, they do not want to hear some sad songs which make people cry. In nowdays, everyone carries ipod and mp3. The technology makes people independently. People do not listen to other noise carefully as Russolo thinks