Something New On The Illusion Of Time

Friday, October 3, 2014 - 06:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Look at a fan rotating. Now look just to the side of it. It seems to rotate slower. Now shift your gaze slowly back toward the center of the fan. The fan seems to pick up speed. There are not just two appearances of its speed, one fast if I stare at it, and one slow if it is in the periphery of my visual field, but instead the fan seems to pick up speed gradually!  read more

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