Time really is speeding up, too. I can't explain the physics of it very clearly (where's Slightly Miffed when you need him?), but I have read about this phenomenon before. The context in which I read about it was that Christian scientists were explaining how the young-earth and old-earth theories can both be correct. See, if time is speeding up, then that means that time used to be waaaaaaaaaaay slower. Now, young-earth theorists say that the universe is 4,000 to 6,000 years old, so I will go with 5,000 for the sake of simplicity.

Old-earth theorists believe that the universe is about 16,000,000,000 (16 billion) years old.

So say x is the creation of the universe and y is now.

X-----------------------------------------Y

If you consider that time used to be A LOT slower and therefore seconds, minutes, days, years, etc. were MUCH longer, then from X to Y is about 5,000 years.

If you assume that time was always the same as it is now, and you divide up X to Y into years that last as long as a year currently lasts, then from X to Y is about 16 million years.

Now, I don't actually know how that affects us (), but I find it pretty darned interesting.