who organized time ?

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 ?

The Atlantians.

Originally posted by chomperx9
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 ?

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.

Originally posted by Bardock42
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.

"You seem to like to share you knowledge with others." 😄

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.

Originally posted by dadudemon
"You seem to like to share you knowledge with others." 😄

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.

You might be right. However it obviously hangs together. If you do it that way you first have to define length.

[edit] Well I checked, what you said is actually how length is defined, but you can check them all here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

what would it have been like if it was 1second=a full day?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what would it have been like if it was 1second=a full day?

Then the word day would be replaced with Second. That is all.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what would it have been like if it was 1second=a full day?

Man, you ask the most insane question, bro.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what would it have been like if it was 1second=a full day?

We had to work this out in a physics class.

I don't remember what we did.

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.

Originally posted by dadudemon
We had to work this out in a physics class.

I don't remember what we did.

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....)

99.99999999330204% to be precise.

Originally posted by King Kandy
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.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
99.99999999330204% to be precise.

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.)

Originally posted by Bardock42
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 😐

Originally posted by King Kandy
I guess that it was always my assumption that the creation was written as 7 days because that was 1 week, not the other way around...

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
so 1 week in creation time could of just been a mere second.

Originally posted by dadudemon
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.)

A Lorentz factor of 86400 is reached at 0.9999999999330204c. There are 86400 seconds in one day. QED

Originally posted by King Kandy
I guess that it was always my assumption that the creation was written as 7 days because that was 1 week, not the other way around...

Yeah, I would agree, however I am saying it became so popular because of it.

Maybe so, but I still want to know what the original point was.

Originally posted by King Kandy
That's not even remotely close to what I was saying.