I posted this on another thread, but fear I may have inadvertently placed it where the kind of forumites who would be interested may not see it.
Please excuse the arrogance of posting it twice. And imagine it's yesterday at about 5.50pm ish.
This is weird, and I'm still a little perturbed.
I am laying here, on my sofa, and until the last few minutes I've been scrawling through Facebook with 'The Chase' on in the background- I'm waiting for the local news programme, and not watching Bradley and his chums, but am aware of what's going on.
Here's what happened: the three remaining contestants were starting their final round. I heard the first few answers (muttering under my breath a couple of answers I guessed) and then had my attention fully absorbed by an article I found on Facebook. I clicked the link, waited for it to open, read the entirety of the article, closed the link... and then turned my attention briefly back to the TV.
To find that only five seconds had passed.
Note: in 'The Chase' there is an on-screen clock counting down during the rounds.
The article was a thing about Denisovans at
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...jkybIIK3LnVjmM1_BYYX0qYr7tFYhove78wjdC1VH0vgE
...which absolutely cannot be read in five seconds. Let alone seen, opened, the cookies agreed with, read and then closed.
So what happened? No pause button was pressed, no rounds were skipped. How very weird. Is there a name for this kind of "slowing down of relative time"?