who organized and decided on how the time works in life ?
for example there is 24 hrs a day 60 mins an HR 60 secs a min how come they decided on that and not 48 hrs a day and 30 mins an hr
and who ever decided on it how did he or she convice the entire world to follow that ?
like maybe in some countries im sure they would have disagreed with how the time got organized since other contries fight over religion and stuff since day 1 why dont they argue over time and dates. like maybe on their calendar they wanted it to be 365 days a year but more months with less days.
how did it get all straighten out and who organized it to how it is today ?
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Apparently it was widespread, due to a prevalence of a duodecimal system (which actually has a few advantages over a decimal system). So basically you divided daytime into twelve hours and night into twelve thereby getting to 24 hours for a full day.
Hours and seconds are similarly defined by as 60 is a good denominator in a 12er system.
Of course modern definitions are different, like seconds are defined by vibrations of molecules or something.
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Also, I thought time was now measured by a specific distance light travels, in a vacuum. I could be wrong. I haven't checked on that SI stuff since highschool.
But you have t obe traveling like 99.9999% of C do accomplish that, I believe. That's just a rough estimate of something I don't remember. (it could be more decimal places....)
I understand a year (roughly one solar rotation), a month (based on lunar rotations, sort of), a day (on turn about the axis)...
But where does a week come from? It doesn't divide cleanly into any of the higher measurements, nor does it seem to derive from any actual physical thing that people could have measured, but across the world it seems universally accepted.
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Well I think that comes from the prevalence of Judaism and later Christianity. Not sure why it is 7 though. I guess it just seemed like a good number to take a day off
Wait, where did you find that? I looked and couldn't find. (It's a hyperbolic (eff, I don't know what that word is...I thought it was hyperbolic) function and it is a long flat line until you get to a significant percentage of C, and then it goes all geometric. I can't find that function.)
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