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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.
"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
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Meaning of this quote
A humorous contrast illustrates how emotion changes the felt passage of time.
Key takeaway:
Distinguish subjective time from a scientific explanation.
Origin of the quote
Einstein is associated with several reported versions of this analogy
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedThis exact nice-girl and red-hot-cinder formulation lacks a checked contemporary source.
