So Its like 5am, Well, Its 5:18am. BUT my phone says its 5:19. So It got me thinking. Which is right? I could go and find all the clocks in the house and even if they all match they probably dont match all the clocks in someone elses house. Or the country or even the WORLD. So who has the right time? Think, There is someone somewhere in the world who has exactly the right time. Like, When the first intelligent people invented clocks and set them to the first time ever I wonder if that times still right now. Or if its like an hour off. Even a few seconds off. Surely.
And before clocks, things were decided by the setting of the sun so how do they know NOW that they have the right ORIGINAL time if sometimes the sun sets differently and what if it set a little later than usual on the day they set the first clocks. And what if now we're all living in a world of wrong time. It poses the question...What IS the right time? What IS time? Time is the word we use for a manmade thing. But before clocks there was still time. So what is now?
Couldnt I just set my clock forward or back a few hours and tell people that was the right time according to me and live by it? Who controls time? Is there a law against time changing and could i be arrested? What about appointments. Could I argue that my 10 o clock with the doctor isnt on my time and arrive late without consequence? And If I got a tattoo and they charged by the hour couldnt i say that 3 hours is equivalent to one hour in my time? What would be the argument against me?
So time is basically a worldwide agreement between everyone. It is constant and unchanging in pattern. Its really the only thing everyone has in common. A minutes a minute..An hours and hour a days a day. No one will argue otherwise. Its probably the only thing created by man that everyone can agree on and I guess its nice to think about it like that.
But its scary to think that without the terminologys like "minute" we're all just existing in an everlasting continuum of happenings. Without "Minute" there is no end to anything. How long is a minute? 60 seconds. But, What is a second? A second is the time it takes me to do something quick. But how quick is quick? What defines a second?
In terms of what the worlds already experienced in the grand scheme of things mans evolution to its current point was quick and if since the beginning its been an hour we arrived in about a minute. How BIG is time? How much more time do we have before it runs out? Apparently the aztecs made this clock thingy thats supposed to run out soon, But how do we know their time is the same as ours, Their "Years" could be millenia in our terms we just dont know. Why do we assume everyone in the history of everything measured time in the same way.
I AM SO CONFUSED AND TIRED.
Dont even get me started on distance...
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