hi folks. what is time and how can it be measured? of course, i know there are months years days... but how comes that 1 sec is 1 sec??? zhow is that measured? the stonhenge is like i heard and understood a sun time clock. has our time planning something to do with that? can you please answer me in clean simple "baby english"? that would be kind bye
It started from how long it takes from one sunrise (or sunset) to the next. That's a day. Then they divided it into three. Morning, afternoon and night (roughly) then gradually smaller and smaller divisions of the day were needed, till we had to (and could) measure tiny atomic vibrations for accuracy. Oddly, in Britain and the USA the idea of standardising time grew from the railways. If New York time and Boston time were different, how would you know when the train would arrive? And if two trains set off from either end at different ten-o'clocks, they might collide on a single track section, where only one of them was expected to be on paper. (I think I just confused the issue again!)
In geometry, a circle is divided into degrees (360 to be exact). An arc minute is 1/60th of a degree and an arc second is 1/60th of an arc minute. When the first clocks were made, they of course were circles. Instead of degrees, it was broken up into 24 hours so it was natural to break an hour up into 60 "minutes" and the minutes into 60 "seconds".
Time (intuitive time) is an illusion. In physics time is the recognition and 'plotting' of entropy upon our universe. That is a simple general statement! Read A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein by Palle Yoghourt. Excerpt; From Publishers Weekly What if time is only an illusion, if it doesn't actually exist? Yourgrau, a Brandeis professor of philosophy, explains that Einstein's general theory of relativity may allow for this possibility, first realized by the great logician Kurt Gödel. Gödel is best known for his incompleteness theorem, one of the most important theorems in mathematical logic since Euclid. In a typically brief paper written for a Festschrift to honor his friend and Princeton neighbor Einstein, Gödel theorized the existence of what have come to be called Gödel universes: rotating universes in which time travel is possible. But if one can travel through time, how can time as we know it exist in these other universes, since the past is always present? And if time doesn't exist in other universes, then it may not exist in ours either. Yourgrau (The Disappearance of Time) writes that Gödel's paper was almost universally ignored, and he claims that since the logician's death, philosophers have gone out of their way to try to denigrate his work in fields other than logic. Its a good little book even if Yourgrau's writing is more painful than mine to read. Rev A
Time is something we're running out of. The next time you're out and about..pay attention to those things most people (men in particular) have strapped around their wrists. They're called 'watches'. They're used to measure time.
time is an economic measurement of exploitation. time was created/a man made concept of movement in a rapidly moving form of civilization. had we not existed there is no time. time is man made. polscie
I believe that 60 came before 360. The value of 60 had a special significance in the ancient Babylon/Mesopotamia. It meant "a great number", like a "million" is today. There are of course the absolutes in time measurement. Take for instance the atomic oscillations which never change.
Time is caused by three things, matter (inner nature), energy (motion) and your ten fingers (decimal counting)
