I'm not really bringing physics into it -- purely just from a biology standpoint. It's like when I nearly get into a car accident or something and my body ups my adrenaline...time seems to move more slowly, in part (I believe), just from that my brain is processing things more quickly (I crashed my mountain bike a couple years ago, and I was perplexed at how long it took me to actually hit the ground). To me at least, it seems as if I could think twice as fast (similar to when I crashed my bike), that time would appear to run more slowly.

I always imagined some vr environment that trains you to think faster and faster over time, which seems like it would be similar to time slowing down. Perhaps the vr is smart enough to adjust the physics of the world to match your faster thinking speed so it would seem normal speed (until you exit the simulation)

Sure, I agree completely. But it doesn't necessarily follow that the needs of the citizens of a state are disregarded by giving everyone's voice the same weight.

I get what you're saying, but that's the result of how our government is set up, and not inherently a result of giving everyone an equal vote.

It could of course easily be argued that currently the needs of the citizens of the larger states are being disregarded at the preference for the smaller states).

** Edited for clarity

I don't question that it's by design, but I can question if there are better designs available -- designs that optimize for a greater overall level of happiness for the citizens of a society. It seems suspect from the get-go -- if that's the only way the larger states could convince the smaller states to join, perhaps that's red flag on the overall premise.

If you could actually design a system from the ground-up, would you actually give some people a larger voice based purely on the number of people who live around them? Seems less than ideal.

Why shouldn't everyone have equal representation?