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Inside Castelo de São Jorge, Lisbon
To the person who passes through this place
You that pass and raise your arm to me
before you hurt me, look at me well.
I am the heat of your home in the cold winter nights.
I am the friendly shade that you find
when walking under the august sun
And my fruits are appetizing freshness
That satisfy your thirst on the way.
I am the friendly beam of your house, the board of your table
the bed in which you rest and the wood of your boat.
I am handle of your hoe, the door of your dwelling
the wood of your cradle and of your own coffin.
I am the bread of goodness and the flower of beauty.
You that pass, look at me well and do no harm.
A team of Israeli scientists has worked out that the human brains magical ability to slow time indicates that our present is an unreliable memory played nanoseconds too late .
Researcher David Eagleman worked out that when time seems to slow down in real life, our senses and cognition must somehow speed up. Either that, or time is an illusion and lunchtime doubly so.
Faced with lots of reports from people who claim that "time slowed down" Eagleman wondered if the experience of slow motion really happens or does it only seem to have happened in retrospect?
He found a thrill ride near the university called Suspended Catch Air Device, an open-air tower from which participants are dropped, upside down, into a net 150 feet below. The person just falls for three seconds, then hit the net at 70 miles per hour.
Eagleman asked subjects who'd already taken the plunge to estimate how long it took them to fall. Then he asked them to watch someone else fall and then estimate the elapsed time for their plunge in the same way. On average, participants felt that their own experience had taken 36 percent longer.
Read more: www.techeye.net/science/israeli-scientists-discover-that-...