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A year is 20% of a five-year-old's life but only 2% of a 50-year-old's — a simple mathematical fact that may help explain why years seem to accelerate as we age. Linguist Joanna Szadura argues that alongside changes in the aging brain, we may experience time on an increasingly compressed, nonlinear scale.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1253+ words) The 20%-versus-2% calculation makes subjective time compression easy to picture. Brain imaging and survey research suggest the full explanation also involves memory, attention, routine and the scale of the question. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 18, 2026 · How…...