The Earth isn't a perfect sphere
It's 13 miles off by the equator compared to the poles, for a sphere with the radius of almost 4000 miles, which if it was a donut or cube, still time would be represented in relation to the orbit around the sun and it's rotation around it's axis, again represented by it's position from the sun.
and a day isn't exactly 24 hours. Also a rotation around the Sun, which isn't a perfect circle, doesn't take exactly 365 days;
Nor is it a perfect circle, because it has to be or somehow that has any significance on our calendar.
It's far from a perfect circle, as the sun isn't stationary and is itself in a orbit to the galactic centre, orbit which also isn't a perfect circle, nor can there be a perfect circle orbit as everything is in flux, surfing on the wakes of each other.
For most of our species' existence, we have accepted the irregular rhythms
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instead they simply reflected the surrounding environment and indicated our place in the cyclical rhythms of nature.
Can't wait to understand why this innocent idea of "nano seconds" is so stupid/diabolical.
This all changed when we started to produce our own time, like we do to this day. This probably began in European churches and monasteries in the 14th century, where bellringers, aided by crude mechanical devices, let people know when it was time to pray, visit the church, or get out of bed. From their inception, mechanical time devices were made to keep track of the regular intervals between strictly human, social activities and necessities. This was the start of a completely different attitude towards time. No longer was it a natural rhythm shaped by a combination of various phenomena, but a homogenous series of perfectly identical intervals provided by one source; here we get our first glimpse as to how societies are literally ruled by the clock, and how the clock has become a tool for exercising power.
Both the clock and calendar are products of the urge to regulate individuals and societies into the rhythms imposed by the ruling authorities that shape our daily lives, be they of religious, political or economical kind. The time on our mechanical and digital clocks is not what most of us think it is. It's no longer a reflection of natural phenomena, nor is it a true and absolute time that scientists are measuring. It was created and frequently altered to fit social, political, and economical purposes. The clock, in other words, doesn't measure time but produces it. Clock time is a social construct and a very specific way of looking at time, and as a global system, it's only about a century and a half old.
How many clock in a century again?
365 clock a nanosecond.
With the development of quartz clocks and atomic clocks, clock accuracy kept increasing. Nowadays we use 400 atomic clocks in labs around the world, the average of which is used to keep International Atomic Time accurate. In America, the official time is kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in Boulder, Colorado. From there it's broadcast to various points across the country and fed through computer networks and cellphone towers to our personal gadgets, all ticking perfectly synchronous. This national and global agreement on time makes trains and airplanes take off on time, smooths communication, and enables the 24-hour economy to run at a pace it's never run before.
Pace... I'm sure you've noticed a difference between the "pace of life" in rural and urban areas, or between the global north and the global south. In regions where people are more clock-oriented, they walk faster, drive faster, and talk faster due to the near-constant time pressure in their lives. This also contributes to chronic stress, and workplace stress, leads to poor food choices, and leaves us vulnerable to various (mental) health problems; I'll talk about our neglect of our biological clocks later. But for now, it's important to understand that our current maniacal adherence to "official time" stems mostly from the industrial revolution.
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one hour is divided into 60 minutes, and 60 seconds make up one minute. None of that is true though.
During the industrial revolution, the tyranny of time really took off:
the tyranny of time,
During the industrial revolution
really took off:
But with the industrial revolution, employers needed a way to synchronise factory workers, to coordinate the arrival of raw materials and optimise production. The answer was clocks and it fundamentally changed our relationship with the clock.
Evil stupid clock.
It is not a coincidence that our current public schooling system was developed alongside the needs
Evil needs.
Time pressure is built into our lives from a very young age, as well as the neglect of our biological clocks. As with all other life on this planet we've evolved in a 24-hour day-night cycle, in accordance to which we possess genes with instructions for a biological clock that marks the passage of approximately 24 hours. Our biological, or "circadian" clocks prepare our bodies for sleep when the sun sets and for waking, active life when it rises. The intimate connection of our bodies with the natural rhythms of the planet and nature is vital for our health. Building our lives around man-made non-biological clocks, and the availability of artificial light makes us stay awake when our bodies and brains are expecting sleep. For evidence of why this is a bad thing, look at shift workers who sleep during the day. Their sleep is usually shorter and of poorer quality because the circadian system is instructing the body that it should be awake, and vice-versa at night.
O no, how can something so irregular be programmed into DNA while at the same time being so fragile that midday naps don't exist, or you know any kind of adaptability. Fucking irredeemably retarded moron.
Mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression; neurological conditions like Alzheimer's, stroke, and multiple sclerosis; developmental disorders such as autism; and serious disorders of the eye (including the development of cataracts) are all associated with circadian-rhythm disruption. It's even said that divorce rates are high when one partner is involved in shiftwork:
Clocks, ultimate Evil.
Our sense of time has changed radically since the industrial revolution
No.
In physics time isn't absolute; instead, it is connected to space in spacetime, and it behaves differently under the influence of gravity and speed. Time moves slower closer to Earth than in orbit where the gravitational force is weaker; this difference must be incorporated into the Global Positioning System to be accurate. I already mentioned the natural time kept by our biological clocks. And then there's our subconscious experience of time and cultural time. In places where the clock hasn't yet taken over daily life, time is measured in how long it takes to accomplish certain tasks for example. There's this Aboriginal tribe in Australia I often use to explain this. I don't remember what they're called since I saw it only once in a documentary, and it isn't important anyway. One of the elders of that tribe was asked, with the help of a translator, how many sons he has, and his answer was "many". The interviewer, wanting to know an exact number asked again, and the answer was again "many". Pressed by yet another attempt on the same question the elder tribesman said four names, drawing a stripe in the sand for each name, and concluded: "Many!"
They measured time in lucid dreaming, turns out its the same, meanwhile because a retard who understands one or zero but not two, o wow, so clever, so inspiring, so natural.
This tribe, it was revealed later in the documentary, doesn't have words for numbers, only a word for "one", "many", and "all". They don't even have a word for "zero", because what use is there for a word for something that's not there? They do have a word for "not anymore"; they can express something that used to be there. Also, they don't have our classical wind directions like north, south, east and west. Instead, they express directions related to landmarks they know, like a hill or a tree. Distances aren't measured in kilometers or miles, but instead in songs, like: we've been singing a long time, or many songs. That's a culture that's alien to us, but try to imagine nevertheless how free these people are, living without the need for exact measurements of any kind. That's the exact opposite of the modern, western, capitalist mindset in which something simply doesn't exist if it can't be measured (read: monetized).
Simple Retards who aspire to eat dirt and sleep in shit. So brave, such freedom.