I haven't gotten up to date on this thread yet, but I do want to add that a fiend of mine and I have been observing the time fluctuations experimentally over the last year or so.

We drive together a lot and we time the trips. Inexplicably, a trip that takes 35 minutes one day, might take 7 minutes on the same day of the following week. Traffic has never been an issue during any of the trips we count in our experiment.

I am a consistent driver, I do not speed and I travel the same route at the same times of day. The thing is, we have these intense conversations, and we are always "wrapping things up" just as we get to the driveway of where we are going.

So if I were a scientist trying to understand "time" for myself... The evidence in our experiement suggests that the time it will take *appears* to be more dependent on our interpersonal dynamic (connection and communication) than it does on speed and distance.