Spiritual Life

Why Age Matters

We celebrate birthdays as milestones, but are we counting the right markers?

Physical age is what it is. Some folks count conception as the start, most seem to count the day you were born. From there on, you’ve been on this planet as long as you’ve been on this planet, determined by revolutions. There is probably a genetic clock that could be a determinant for age, but even that can be skewed. There is an astronaut who has an identical twin. The twin has never been to space. Scott Kelly is younger than his twin because he has spent more time in space than his brother. Sure, it’s just a millisecond younger, but it’s measurable. Time is not what we think.

Gravity affects time. Clock on the surface tick beats off slower than clocks in orbit. Clocks approaching a black hole, from our perspective, slow, and seem to stop. From the vantage point of the clock, it’s ticking normally.

Biologically speaking, we age differently even in the same gravity space. Dog years are counted as 1 for seven human years, coming from dividing human life expectancy of around 77 by the canine life expectancy of around 11.

Hummingbirds see time differently than humans. Dolphins might measure time by days, but consider how chaotic their life is. If you had no home base…