Time

[Kardan]

Babylon was the capital of Mesopotamia *+*strutz thru ancient iraq*+* and yeah there's all sorts of pages saying that it's because they used 60 as a base, but no-one with a real idea of why other than because they felt like it lol

Derp on my behalf for not knowing babylon = mesopotamia. Although I did know that Babylon was in what is now Iraq and that Mesopotamia was the old name for Iraq. Bed time.

[Amberr]

I always wonder about things like this, it is strange how to the majority of people it doesn't even occur to them but yet its part of there every day life.

[Lewis]

24 hours is how long for the moon to go around the Earth?

Are you being serious? That's so wrong...

A year was created to mark a full rotation around the sun, and days were created to mark a full rotation of the Earth's axis, I'm assuming that hours and minutes were just random sub divisions of a day that someone created down the line, simple really

And to the earlier question of what would time be if everything stopped, then it would be nothing. Time is just a relative measurement, so for the relativeness to become nothing, then time wouldn't exist.

If you read my other post, I corrected myself with the 24 hour thing .

Yes, what you say is correct - and thats basically what I was trying to say (simpler and failed) . Time does exist, but how we measure it is purely man made.

[GoldenMerc]

I've always thought this too, plus how did they decide swear words

[Myomoto-08]

I've always thought this too, plus how did they decide swear words

That's a better point actually! Never mind time who decided on swear words ?

[e5]

Time is time. It doesn't matter to me weather a minute is 60 seconds or a 100 seconds, time still moves at the same pace!

[Myomoto-08]

Time is time. It doesn't matter to me weather a minute is 60 seconds or a 100 seconds, time still moves at the same pace!

That's not entirely true because time does matter to you it matters to everyone it's just something that's apart of everyone's life.
Also, you live off the man made time scale, for example be at school for 9am or you're late, so you would be there because it matters to be on time

[FlyingJesus]

I've always thought this too, plus how did they decide swear words

The widescale societal bastardisation of various nouns and adjectives with malicious intent

[Empired]

365 days was chosen because thats how long it takes to circle the sun.

Not sure if this has already been said 'cause I don't want to read through the entire thread but actually it takes a few hours over 365 days, that's why we have the leap year isn't it?? Sorry if I just made that up on the spot by accident :rolleyes:

[Matthew]

Its a really weird thing to think about, time, but IMO it just shows how amazing the human brain is that we can comprehend something as obscure and complex (although simple) as time, and also can think about our brains thinking about time

Slightly off topic with the brain stuff but yeah, time is weird


@BamitsElfie!; yes its 365 and a quarter isn't it, thus a leap year every 4 years.