Occam's Razor

Occam's offer a closer shave than any other razor on the market. 

I am about to finish my first year of college.

Each time I say that I can not help to think about how quickly everything went by, how different I wish some things would've been, and how perfect some other things were. Initially I thought about how fast it went by when compared to a year of school from when I younger; the year from my youth felt so much longer. During my latest peaceful pondering I had figured out why time goes faster as you get older.

I felt that perhaps a day felt longer when you were young because it was a larger part of your life, for example: A day to a 6 year-old is 1/2190th of their life on earth, assuming they are exactly 6 years old. Whereas for an 18 year-old it is 1/6570th of their life - while figuring out these numbers I thought it made sense until I figured out that this is going to suggest that a day for a 6 year-old feels 3 times longer than a day to an 18 year-old. Which.... does not seem accurate in the slightest.

Like most things I am likely over-thinking the entire concept and counting variables that don't exist, while leaving out others that do. There is occam's razor with which people have identified as a principle claiming that when there are multiple equally likely hypotheses being tested against one another, the one with the fewest assumptions should be the one chosen. In simpler terms, the less complicated answer is the right one. Following the principle my entire post should be discredited entirely.... but that leaves me with less silly things to think about.

TL;DR of this post: I have a theory that time goes faster due to the amount being a smaller portion of the whole, however, I have nothing but personal experience to support the idea. Occam's razor is cool. 


-Umar