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Welcome to BBC Xtra English.

Today Finn and Liliane are talking about time.

They ask the question: Is it possible to extend our lives by slowing down time itself?

The answer is no, of course. But a new book by Steve Taylor says that if you do something new, your perception of time changes. Having a new experience can make it seem as if time is going slower.

For example, when you are a child the summer seems to last forever. This is because children are experiencing something new. Everything is fresh for them.

So time seems to go faster as you get older because we have fewer new experiences. Another reason is the proportional theory; the older we get, the smaller one year is, as a proportion of our lives.

We hear some Londoners talking about their perception of time; when time passes quickly for them and when it goes slowly.

Time goes quickly when people are partying, sleeping and playing sports.

Time goes slowly when people are working, bored or watching the clock.

When does time pass quickly for you, and when does it pass slowly? Write to us in English!
متى يمر الوقت بسرعة شديدة او ببطء شديد بالنسبة لك ؟

أنقر هنا للاستماع للكلمات

to extend
إطالة - مد

slowing down time
إبطاء الوقت

perception
فهم - منظور - ادراك - انطباع

to last forever
تدوم للابد

fresh
جديد - حديث- طازج

the proportional theory
نظرية النسبية

partying
يحتفلون

watching the clock
مراقبة الساعة

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Here are some of your comments:

Mohammed, Morocco
time is time so we are just feeling that time pass quickly or slowly accordingly to state of oursleves we judge the time

Kasim, Baghdad, Iraq
when we nearest from my mother and when we spend your time with your kids i feel the time goes very quickly but i feel time goes very slow when i meet a person I do not like

Khalid Aamer, Thamar, Yemen
i think the time passing is proportional and differ from person to another for example when we work the time pass quickly but when we wait for some think the time pass so slowly

Fares, Verona
the time pass quickly when we have interesting thing to do but the time goes slowly when we have something not beautiful to do

Yousef Mohamad, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Time pass quickly when i work to help other people and go very slowly when i stay without doing any thing.

Ouederrou Mustapha, Mezguida Rissani, Morocco
For me,time goes quickly when i am in cyber or pass the exam mainly the sciences...and time goes slowly when i am in hard work or i wait someone or something

Mohammad, Kuwait:
Time pass quickly when I write something like write my result in the university in my opinion the time pass so slowly and the time pass quickly when i busy like in the work or in the vacation.

Marzouq, Jordan:
I feel that the time goes quickly when I'm experiencing happy moments, new events or sometimes when I'm doing good things and via versa.

Aseel, Erbil, Iraq:
I think times goes so slowly when you have problem with your love and waiting his call, imagine with yourself that he had to apologise, but he will never do.

Assan, Erbil, Iraq:
When I have the beautiful times such as when I went for trip by visiting my relatives or friends or have a picnic with my family or friends , when I listened to the bbc xtra programme and when I search in the internet the time passes more quickly that make you don't believe that the time was over and I don't like that, when I stay in the Office , I have a work that its not my profession and there was meeting or lecture on subject that I can't understand it the time passes more slowly that make me watching every 5 or 10 minutes to my watch.

Mahmoud, Aleppo, Syria:
Time goes quickly when I were with who I love, and when I listening or watching or reading interesting subject . But the time goes slowly when I waiting in the crowded traffic.

Muna, Yemen:
For me the time goes very quickly when i go out of city to help people and also when I spend time the my kids i don't feel the time i feel the time goes slowly when I am waiting for something.

Mohga, Egypt:
First of all i would like to thank BBC Xtra Since i really enjoy all the Topics it discusses every day. In My Point of view i believe that Time is very quick either you make something enjoyable or not .it is all the same. But Maybe most of us ,especially during the exams do believe that time is toooooo slow.....thanks

Tareq, Sert, Libya:
Hi. first of all thanks at this programme and i respect your efforts. my quick time that when i go to bed and dreaming fantastic dreams then get up and said if that was really my slowing down time when i go to job.

Eissa, UAE, Dubai:
The time well passes but we should use it in good thing as winning the experiance in our jop and laif and descus how we can renew our relatinship with people in world

Hassan, Dubai, UAE:
The time pass quickly when I had happy occasion but slowing down time in sick of me or of anyone of my family now the time pass very slowly because i am expatriate.

Amr, Cairo, Egypt:
Well, the time goes slowly when i study or have nothing to do. but it goes faster when i play sports or go out with my friends.

Ali, UAE, Dubai:
I think the time most important to every one for the time is in our hand but who can we use it when you been in trouble you find the time so slowly and time can do so much.

Ahmed, Luxor, Egypt:
The time going so fast anyway but some time we feel it slow when we don't like the recent moment as work time and when we meet people we don't like and we force to meet them.

Atef, Lattakia City, Syria:
Sometimes i feel like the time is stop when i kick the ball or when I'm doing moves in football especially in field.

Elhadi, Bareina:
Firstly i want to thank bbc xtra for its programs that i interested for hearing to it. regarding to my point of view; I think that we can slowing down time by doing something that make us feeling happy and interesting, and we can do it by changing the routine and by diversifying our knowledge. briefly we can slowing down time by doing any job that make Us away from the leisure.

Nazik, London, UK:
It seems to me that happy and enjoyable time pass very quickly and bored and sad ones pass slowly . a sadness is deeply expressed in our life. We cry when we ware born, and pass away in a sad event , that means life is a matter of effort and hard mission.

Salam, Palestine:
I think the time pass quickly when i wait some thing and when i do bored things and pass very fast when i do interesting actions.

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