Temporal relativity

[P95Carry]

Just a bit of fun!

Everyone must experience this phenomenon ..... time (real time) often seems compressed or expanded ... all dependent on what we do. One very good example of compression is a range session ... where maybe 8 hours flies by but seems barely like 2 (or worse).

If we use ''n'' to represent the real time value and ''='' to mean ''seems like'' ..... then the range visit shows as n = n/4. We perceive the time as being barely a quarter of what it actually was.

Now work (groan) ... this shows usually a marked to serious temporal expansion! ...... n = (n + n/2) .... or even 2n!

Other things that came to mind .........

Reloading ........ n = n ... if concentration up to the mark then time seems about what I'd expect. Not tedious but not indifferently absorbing either. Pleasant means to an end (unless loading for shottie ... and shot gets spilled!).

Bullet casting .... once into a rhythm .. probably n = n/2, unless phone rings and ruins said rhythm and allows pot or molds to cool too much!

Lubesizing ..... not my fave ... bit of a n = 2n!!

Gun Cleaning ...... hmmm ....... n = n + n/2 usually! Maybe even 2n with a large session. (YMMV!)

The strip and ''escaped spring'' .... LOL ...... n = 10n ... but here we have expanded msec's ... as we experience the slow motion realization that the sucker is off to parts unreachable, at speed of light but ... time runs slow even so. And we know we have a snowflake's chance in hell of finding it again!

Search for said spring ...... n = 10n and upwards!!

Sleep ..... providing you sleep OK then n = n/8 or even less ..... it always seems to be time to get up - again!

Mowing ..... tricky one .... depends on how much it cuts across shooting/loading etc .. maybe n = n, on a fine day.

Gassing up ... if most pumps anything to go by round here ..... n = 2n, at least!

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There are others .. but some not suitable for THR perhaps!. You got any others??

 

[PlayTheAces]

The worst one that comes to mind is the infamous 10 day wait "cooling off period". That's gotta be an n = 25n.

I agree the "invisible shooting spring" is definitely an n = 10n. I spent over an hour crawling on the floor looking for a detent spring a couple of months back. Seemed like it took an afternoon at least, but I finally found the little bugger.

 

[P95Carry]

the infamous 10 day wait "cooling off period". That's gotta be an n = 25n.

Aces ... I should have included that!! Thing is tho I am not affected by it here and so forgot .... but have to say if I DID have to suffer it then yeah ... maybe even n = 100n! I have yet to find out exactly WHAT it has ever achieved.!

Glad you found your spring .. I have had to give up on one or two over the years!

 

[Double Naught Spy]

If work causes time expansion, then you have chosen the wrong job. Granted, my job does not compress nearly as much as my time does while shooting, but it still goes by pretty quickly.

 

[P95Carry]

If work causes time expansion, then you have chosen the wrong job

More relativity really DNS .. I do fortunately enjoy most of what I do but still ... some things can get repetitious and a tad tedious ... in those times it is all too easy to think of what would be more tempting to do .... so time slows a bit.

Maybe when things going ok (with ''refresher'' stops into THR ) .. then probably n = n much of the time.!

 

[PATH]

HuH!

 

[pax]

Picking up brass (n = n)

on a gravel range (n = n + n/2)

in the rain (n = 2n), or sleet (n = 4n), or snow (n = 5n),

as it is getting dark outside (n = 6n),

when you are already an hour later coming off the range than you told your spouse you were going to be (n =7n),

and then listening to the fireworks when you get home (ummm, I refuse to try to quantify that one!)

pax

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein

 

[P95Carry]

and then listening to the fireworks when you get home

That pax would be possibly n = n^n

Thx for playing my stoopid game!

 

[Typhoon]

The strip and ''escaped spring'' .... LOL ...... n = 10n

With a cat the equation becomes n = 10n x C = infinity