How long is now? The more we approach this question, the more it raises new questions and the less it becomes tangible and answerable. What is Now? How long does Now last? Is there Now at all? And if yes, where is it, where does it manifest? In the space, in ourselves or somewhere else?

The Levels of the Projection
HOW LONG IS NOW, 2004,  Globalodromia, Light installation, Galerie 35, Berlin

http://filoart.org/how-long-is-now/

Mind you, the above is Long so it is not likely it can be read in the Now. Just sayin'

 

How Long is Now?

Most of us are content to live in a world where time is simply what a clock reads. Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert is not.

The most commonly-used noun in the English language is, according to the Oxford English Corpus, time. Its frequency is partly due to its multiplicity of meanings, and partly due to its use in common phrases. Above all, “time” is ubiquitous because what it refers to dictates all aspects of human life, from the hour we rise to the hour we sleep and most everything in between.

Eggert lives in Denton, Texas, where she is professor of sculpture and studio art at the University of North Texas. Her work has been exhibited at cultural institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

In an early piece from 02008 titled “The Length of Now,” Eggert soaked a yarn of red string in water and froze it into the shape of the word “now.” She then hung it on a wall and filmed it while it melted. (“Now,” in that artwork, turned out to be two minutes and forty-three seconds long).

Now, it should be mentioned, that this article is even longer than the last one.

https://longnow.org/ideas/how-long-is-now/

What we might need is a more concise answer?

The short answer is 'somewhere between two and three seconds'; the long answer involves a voyage through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power of meditation. 

http://landing.newscientist.com/how-long-is-now/

So, how long is now? And when is now too long?