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LET it be assumed that the origin of the sensation of time and the flux of time lies in the Fitzgerald contraction of brain material. If the brain material is carried relatively to 'space' or 'ether' with constant speed, the sensation will be steady in amount, and so the flow of time will seem to be uniform. For all speeds of motion the contraction is a well-known function of the speed, and it is the most simple postulate that the sensation of the lapse-rate of time is altered correspondingly.
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Nature, 153, 572 (1944).
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PEDDIE, W. The Fitzgerald Contraction as the Origin of our Experience of Time and its Lapse Rate. Nature 156, 336 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156336a0
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