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  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The meaning isn’t literal, it is saying that waiting feels longer when you are focused on the thing.

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        2 days ago

        I’ve heard that before and it sounds plausible, but the anticipation making things take longer is clever instead of literal.

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      The meaning can also be literal if you interpret it using quantum physics. Observing the quantum state of a molecule will collapse its wavefunction in the most likely state, which is the same state it was in if you observed it mere instants ago.