Do you believe age behaves the same in their world as it does ours?

[Unity 332]

How do you think age works in the world where Equestria is located?

Do you think it is similar to our earth or do you think may be they are faster or slower?

Edited August 3, 2018 by Unity

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,531]

I think ponies live much longer, probably because of that good ol magic they have. Just look at Granny Smith, who is essentially ancient, but still kicking. Magic of some kind probably plays a huge role in all of that, as Equestria seems to have all sorts of types of magic, apparent or not.

[SharpWit 2,666]

I regard the mention of ponyville having been founded hundreds of years ago and Granny Smith being present for its founding as the show creators not paying very close attention rather than her having been around for a few centuries, and as far as how time between MLP and Equestria works, I think they didn't bother trying. Probably best to assume some destiny occurred in that Twilight had to go through the portal around the same time the human variants of her friends happened to all be together. Also if Granny smith were ancient, that would negate much of the significance that comes with Celestia's age. Afterall, her younger years are a time where the current generation thought a lot of what happened was of myth and legend.

I think Ponies age like we do but that their life expectancy has recently gone up with further societal and technological advancements.

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,835]

Depends. I think they do but they have higher expactations from others while they are still young considering that they need to find their talent and "cutie mark."

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

First, we need to know how many days in one of their years. How long is their day, for that matter? How do they measure time?

 

 

Back on an edit. Have they ever shown a clock? I've been trying to remember if they have. In Lesson Zero, Twilight seemed to be using the position of the sun to tell time. Does anyone remember seeing a clock?

Edited August 3, 2018 by cuteycindyhoney

[Brobot 1,436]

Honestly I think Earth ponies have the same life span of humans cause we see old ponies and not old unicorns or pegusus ad granny smith has been alive since the founding of ponyville so she must have some age under her belt!

[Here No Longer 5,276]

It's quite clear that it doesn't. Celestia and Luna have both been alive for at least 1130 years and Granny Smith is probably quite a ways past 100...

 

Ponies age slower than people, some even apparently age slower than trees do.

[Senko 459]

On topic first I suspect ponies age slower than our world having a modern human lifespan so rather than 25 to 30 years they'll live 80 to 100 years. This also fits in with Granny Smith and the founding of ponyville as its implied that was around 100 years ago from what I recall off the top of my head and we do know a lot of other ponies around then have passed on or passed away e.g. Filthy Rich's grandfather and possibly his father. On the other hand maybe she's like old Billy and has lived to be twice the average lifespan of a pony and is nearing her second century.

On 8/3/2018 at 1:26 PM, cuteycindyhoney said:

First, we need to know how many days in one of their years. How long is their day, for that matter? How do they measure time?

 

 

Back on an edit. Have they ever shown a clock? I've been trying to remember if they have. In Lesson Zero, Twilight seemed to be using the position of the sun to tell time. Does anyone remember seeing a clock?

Yep I'm pretty sure we see clocks at a number of different points in various episodes e.g. Rarity takes manehattan when Pinky puts to a large one on the side of the building saying Rarity's deadline is only a few minutes away or the clock tower in ponyville we see in Heart's and Hooves Day.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

4 hours ago, Senko said:

 

Yep I'm pretty sure we see clocks at a number of different points in various episodes e.g. Rarity takes manehattan when Pinky puts to a large one on the side of the building saying Rarity's deadline is only a few minutes away or the clock tower in ponyville we see in Heart's and Hooves Day.

Thank you. I was trying to remember if they ever showed clocks.

[nr2038 51]

Well Granny Smith would not need to be ancient for her to be a founding member of the Ponyville Community. There are towns that were formed in the last century and and a half. Now taking also into consideration that no one wanted to live that close to the Everfree and/or the old castle where Nightmare Moon lived it kind of makes sense that the ponies have possibly a linger life span in relation to humans. 

[Jedishy 3,548]

I am going to have to echo others in saying that I think their ages work the same for who is considered an adult and what have you but that they live much longer. Though I do find it odd how much liberty the kids are given. Maybe that is due to lack of crime and not assumed maturity? 

[Unity 332]

21 minutes ago, Jedishy said:

I am going to have to echo others in saying that I think their ages work the same for who is considered an adult and what have you but that they live much longer. Though I do find it odd how much liberty the kids are given. Maybe that is due to lack of crime and not assumed maturity? 

what liberty?

[Kadeda 178]

I think they age the same as we do for the most part... maybe with a bit of a longer life expectancy. Nothing to crazy though. I think when Twilight said Ponyville been around for hundreds of years... it's a plot hole as everything else tells us it's been around 50-100 years.

 

My guess is that granny smith is either 75 or 85 years old and ponyville was created 60 or 70 years ago. 

[Jedishy 3,548]

1 hour ago, Unity said:

what liberty?

Twilight raising a dragon which is a sentient creature. AppleJack going to Manehatten all on her own. Things of that sort. 

[Unity 332]

1 hour ago, Jedishy said:

Twilight raising a dragon which is a sentient creature. AppleJack going to Manehatten all on her own. Things of that sort. 

Not sure what you mean...

If these were things that took place when they were fillies then sure.

But currently, they are most likely about 17 or 18, which is old enough.

[Jedishy 3,548]

Just now, Unity said:

Not sure what you mean...

If these were things that took place when they were fillies then sure.

But currently, they are most likely about 17 or 18, which is old enough.

Twilight has had Spike since she was a filly just starting school. AppleJack went to Manhatten before she got her cutie mark so she was a filly then too. 

[Senko 459]

3 hours ago, Jedishy said:

Twilight raising a dragon which is a sentient creature. AppleJack going to Manehatten all on her own. Things of that sort. 

I can sort of see Twilight raising Spike since on the one hand she did hatch him and if you include the comics Celestia did help her out somewhat here and there and apparently did it deliberately to give Twilight her first friend. Personally I think Celestia just thought the filly who hatched the dragon should try taking care of him while she was available to step in and intervene if necessary and yes I do know that brings up all sorts of teen pregnancy issues. However there could well be other circumstances we don't know about and the show does like to hint at these situations so it could well be that Twilight is the single, teenage mum of the show.

As for Applejack its not like she was living alone and working she was staying with realitives rather like Bab's did for a time.

Edited August 5, 2018 by Senko

[Unity 332]

5 hours ago, Jedishy said:

Twilight has had Spike since she was a filly just starting school. AppleJack went to Manhatten before she got her cutie mark so she was a filly then too. 

That does seem strange to us. But we do not fully understand Equestrian Society yet so there maybe things here considered strange, but normal there.

Just like any part of the world.

[Kadeda 178]

On 8/5/2018 at 4:02 AM, Unity said:

Not sure what you mean...

If these were things that took place when they were fillies then sure.

But currently, they are most likely about 17 or 18, which is old enough.

I'm not even sure they were that young when the show started. If anything ... that's probably closer to how old the CMC are. There's to much pointing toward them being in their mid to late twentys. They even introduced teenage pony bodies in season 6.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Kadeda

[FizzyGreen 909]

Oh, what could i do to get time dilation into this? 
...probably not much 

 

Yeah no i think time works the same way i just think ponies live very long there. But for that you need no different rules of physics. It's just their genetics. Just how growing can be a programmed part just like the molt. And i think you can only count a year in mlp by how many hearts warming eaves we had so far. ...which i didn't count.

[Kadeda 178]

4 hours ago, FizzyGreen said:

Oh, what could i do to get time dilation into this? 
...probably not much 

 

Yeah no i think time works the same way i just think ponies live very long there. But for that you need no different rules of physics. It's just their genetics. Just how growing can be a programmed part just like the molt. And i think you can only count a year in mlp by how many hearts warming eaves we had so far. ...which i didn't count.

I think that's a bad idea because the latest episode showed that there has been hearts warming eves not shown to us.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Kadeda

[Senko 459]

3 hours ago, Kadeda said:

I think that's a bad idea because the latest episode showed that there has been hearts warming eves not shown to us.

There's been 5 so far in season 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8. We didn't get 1 in season 7 which heart's warming eve club could be referring to that season.

[GuerrierCosmique 146]

It's common for cartoon and comicbook characters to grow and age like regular people until a certain point where they "freeze" which is usually the first time they appear. For example, in the Disney comicbook universe, which is supposed to be set in "the present day" of each story (which was the 30s and 40s when it did start), Donald hasn't changed any bit, Huey, Dewey and Louie are still children and Scrooge would be 150 years old by now.

Edited August 7, 2018 by Kosmobatalanto

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,543]

I think they age much different. I think that because of their magic especially unicorns they could with the right spell live forever and whoever they cast it on. Now I don't now about earth and pegasus ponies but each of them have magical properties, but I don't now how that would work with how they age.